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...World. Read about her extraordinary life in this article... Marie-Louise Girardin France/new world 1754-94 Exploration [Labillardière's drawing of his experiences in Australasia ] A drawing by Labillardiere of the expedition Girardin undertook. Even in the radical atmosphere of revolutionary France, there were few options open to a young woman who had given birth to a...

...World War...Find out about The Open University's History courses and qualifications In 2012, I recorded this audio in which two leading historians of the First World War discuss their subject, and in particular the question of the origins of the war, with me. Professor John Röhl and Professor Christopher Clark explain the fascination of the topic and give their differing...

...The Book of the City of Ladies, de Pizan tackled the subject of the cause of women. She celebrated women’s accomplishments and pointed to their equal abilities to men’s. She thus revised history by giving women a place in it and showed the elite women of her time how they could successfully navigate their way in a man's world. Dig deeper into literature and history...

...world...Transcript ‘Not a lot of people meet the term Art History, or History of Art, at school. It’s not something that’s widely taught’, admits Sarah Victoria Turner, the current Director of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. As such, the subject has always had a ‘bit of an image problem about it’, often being seen as an ‘elitist subject,...

As a single woman in the early 20th century making ends meet was no easy feat, so it's remarkable that Madam CJ Walker became the first female self-made millionaire in America. Read her story here... Madam CJ Walker 1867 - 1919 USA Business [Madame CJ Walker image] Madam C.J. Walker, the first self-made female millionaire in the USA. In early twentieth-century USA it...