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The US Supreme Court's first woman justice 2021-04-12
Discovering the Jet Stream 2021-04-09
From Leningrad to St Petersburg 2021-04-08
David Attenborough's first expedition 2021-04-07
Mexico's female serial killer 2021-04-06
The women who reclaimed the night 2021-04-05
Black Jesus 2021-04-02
Kidnapped on an orchid hunt 2021-04-01
Mrs Thatcher’s ground-breaking Soviet TV interview 2021-03-31
When the prisoners ran the prison 2021-03-30
Anorexia nervosa 2021-03-29
South Africa takes on big pharma 2021-03-25
The woman who got America talking about sex 2021-03-24
Jamaica’s ‘drug lord’ 2021-03-23
The Ulster Workers' Strike 2021-03-22
The dirtiest chess match in history 2021-03-19
Mars-500 isolation experiment 2021-03-18
Alva Myrdal - the woman who made modern Sweden 2021-03-17
Paris is Burning 2021-03-15
The woman who asked Britain to return the Parthenon marbles 2021-03-11
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