Historian Helen McCarthy helps us make sense of our recent past. She infuses her subjects – from working mothers to modern ...

Fleming made major scientific discoveries and belonged to the Harvard Computers, a team of women who processed astronomical ...

It was a "murder mystery" that gripped Swansea - the death of a "respectable" young woman who worked as a live-in maid for a ...

When the Loch Shiel ran aground in a storm its cargo of 7,000 cases of whisky was washed overboard and soon attracted the ...

Take for example, Mary Swanzy’s painting, Pont du Gard (€25,000-€35,000), which is for sale at Adam’s Important Irish Art ...

Choosing a name for your little girl is one of the most exciting and meaningful decisions you'll make as a parent. If you’re ...

An author hopes to ‘capture the magic of York’ with her debut novel which will take readers back in time to an old bookshop, nestled in ...

They lived much of their lives as women and in 1870 were arrested in the audience of ... who performed female parts at the ...

The show tells the entwined stories of Mary Carr's Forty Elephants, an all-female gang of thieves who plotted elaborate ...

A year after Chaithanya 'Swetha' Madhagani's body was found in a wheelie bin, her friends are still waiting for answers, with her husband named as a person of interest. Photo shows New Year's ...

A female pioneer for Aboriginal rights will be honoured with a mural in Melbourne as part of a state government push to increase representation of women in public art. The Victorian government has ...

Further bunches of white flowers, symbolising the purity of the women's suffrage movement and its fight for female political equality, have been tucked at her feet, wilting gently in the spring ...