Trailblazing women

Introducing the winners of our Amazing Women Awards 2025, in partnership with NHS Charities Together

RESEARCHERS at Findmypast have embarked on a project to recognise and highlight the contributions of an estimated 68 million women who might otherwise go unrecognised historical records. Findmypast fo

Celebrating influence that speaks to authority, success and change, but also emotional intelligence, integrity and empathy, these are the women leading our first ever Soft Power List

Here’s how Jane Austen’s talent for storytelling continues to inspire TV and film versions of her novels

Danny Bird How did you go about uncovering women’s central – and obscured – role in economic history? Victoria Bateman I’ve taught economic history for 20 years, and I wanted to bring together the man

In 2000, Banu Mushtaq was subject to a fatwa for saying that it was not Islam itself that prohibited women from entering certain mosques, but the patriarchs of those mosques. Today the writer, lawyer