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In 1943, the first and only professional women's baseball league was launched in the US
On March 28th 1941 the British novelist Virginia Woolf took her own life.
Thousands of women and girls worked on farms throughout WW2 to produce much needed food.
One girl's story of exile and soldiering during World War II.
America's longest-serving First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt
Millions of women were left single after the men they would have married died in WW1.
Alexandra Kollontai was the leading Marxist feminist in Communist Russia.
On 6th February 1918, women in Britain were given the right to vote for the first time
A revolutionary theorist and feminist icon, Lenin called her the Eagle of the Revolution
For the first time women were encouraged to join the workforce to help win the war
Over 175 years ago, Caroline Norton began to fight for the rights of married women.
