In the eighteenth century, elite women with a scientific bent often turned to distilling medicines, a craft that helped them participate in experimentation.

Women have been punching each other in the face (during boxing matches) since the early 1700s.

The Italian physicist and philosopher was the first woman to earn a doctorate in science and the first salaried female professor at a university.

The idea of offering remuneration to women for breastfeeding—even their own children—wasn’t unusual in late medieval and early modern Europe.

The game was a way for early modern women in royal courts to prove their skill in political life.

The very things that made Catherine Howard's time as Henry VIII's queen so pleasant became a cudgel with which to beat her.

Poor English women imbued everyday objects with an emotional power that they gave and received. These were known as love tokens.