Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...

Amelia’s plea of insanity was rejected by the court and she was hanged at Newgate Prison on 10 June 1896. Marriage for working-class women was an economic necessity in 19th-century Britain ...

The first half of the 19th century was a time of great change. Industrialization brought new opportunities for employment, changing ideas of work, and economic cycles of boom and bust. During this ...

It was the heyday of the 19th-century daily newspaper ... by 1900 more articles had women’s bylines than men’s. The names in the bylines, however, were often fake. Stunt reporters relied ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s second-oldest prison, built in the 1800s and long targeted for closure, would finally be shuttered under a new plan from Gov. Tony Evers that proposes sweeping ...

Norwich's 19th century prison reformer Elizabeth Fry was hailed during a parliamentary debate to mark International Women's Day - as one of the county's MPs revealed he was related to her. The names ...