Britain’s first qualified female doctor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, had a message for the first women to study for London University’s degree in medicine.

Educational reformer Emily Davies argued that Victorian women had more to offer society than a purely ornamental erudition.

A rowdy but good-humoured crowd gathered in St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, to protest against electoral malpractice and Government cronyism.

Maria Montessori takes some of her pupils up onto a roof terrace, and witnesses a eureka moment.

Daniel Defoe argues that it is in every man’s interest to watch the women in his life realise their full potential.

An Arthurian knight commits a dreadful crime against a woman, and is sent by Queen Guinevere on a fitting errand.