Women who have driven social change are often sidelined in movement histories. Esther Freeman highlights five capital rebels you should know

Today the doors finally open at the British Museum on the Bayeux Tapestry. Just don’t expect to see any women there.

She marched at the first Aldermaston in 1958 and was still going 50 years later, complaining only that the crowd walked too slowly. An extract from Great Women of London on Hetty Bower — born in Hackn...

A UK High Court judge recently applauded the suffragettes for their "transparency". The truth is the movement was full of lies and deceit.

As yet another Westminster psycho-drama unfolds following the resignation of Nigel Farage, once again its constituents who get forgotten.

OTD in 1907 Frida Kahlo was born. Her striking image adorns countless textiles and home furnishings. But this risks erasing her powerful artistic and campaigning legacy

Social historian Esther Freeman tells the story of Eva Slawson, one of many female Londoners who rebelled against patriarchy in the early 1900s

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#OTD Ethel Froud died, and we lost one of the most brilliant and radical teachers this country has known

It's 150 years since the invention of the telephone. While today our moral panic focuses on the ways phones might be harming young people, back then the hysteria was about women.

In May 1926, Britain's first and only General Strike began. Although often told through the eyes of men, women were there too, and their role was significant.

How we need to fix the representation of Jews in historical dramas.

Lord Kitchener was considered a war hero, but a vicar's daughter took him on, exposing his role in one of Britain's most shameful moments in history.

International Women's Day has been taken over by the capitalists, making it more like Mother's Day than its original concept.

#OTD in 1877 Milly Witkop was born. Trade unionist, anarchist and feminist trailblazer, she was advocating for reproductive justice decades before Gloria Steinham put on a pair of aviator glasses

As the numbers taking History GCSE continues to decline, it's time to rethink how we can make history feel relevant and interesting to young people again.

On this day in 1943, Sophie Scholl of the White Rose movement was executed for spreading anti-Nazi propaganda. But she wasn't the only German who resisted.

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The release of the Epstein files shows we've made little progress in believing female sexual abuse victims since Artemisia Gentileschi's rape trial in the 17th century.

In the late 1940s, women in Nigeria gathered to resist an unfair tax, where they took the idea of the protest song to a whole new level

To celebrate International Day of Education, I'm sharing an abridged extract from my forthcoming book, Kitchen Resistance, about the free school meals pioneer, Margaret McMillan.

There are a number of big anniversaries this year, with commemorative events across the country.

Tressa Burke, CEO of Glasgow Disability Alliance, made headlines this week for turning down an MBE. She follows a strong tradition of those who have rejected the royal award.

#OTD in 1937, Jane Fonda was born. You probably think you know her story, yet most only know a small part of it.

The best historical fiction and non-fiction of 2025 ... according to me!

A guest post by London Historians Member Esther Freeman Over the past year, with a grant from the National Heritage Lottery Fund, I’ve been researching how women have used food for social justice. …

It's World AIDS Day - an important time to remember all the art and culture we lost because of this devastating virus.

My second post for Disability History Month explores how political identities for disabled people have changed radically over the past 150 years. And not always for the better.

Last weekend Marina Lewycka, author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian died. Obituaries in the mainstream media focus on her writing, but she was also a brilliant feminist activist.

As part of Disability History Month, I'm shining a spotlight on Elizabeth Burgwin, who we could call the first Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO).

Women seem to be more vulnerable than men to becoming downwardly mobile. This has been the case throughout history.

I’d been in the Women’s Library at LSE for hours, going through oral history transcripts in the Women Against Pit Closures collection. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say I felt close to tears. The…

It's Halloween, which means its my annual rant about the persecution of women as witches. And some of it is more recent than you'd think.

Time is running out to stop the devastating impacts of climate change. Is the next generation our last remaining hope?