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London, England

The Burney Relief

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

Hertfordshire, England

Redbournbury Watermill and Bakery

This operational mill has survived centuries of destruction and construction.

The Dinner Party.

Brooklyn, New York

'The Dinner Party'

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

Marrakesh, Morocco

Musée de La Femme (Women’s Museum)

North Africa's first museum of its kind preserves the culture of Moroccan women and their artistic achievements.

Baniwa Jiquitaia

Pivotal to the culture and cuisine of Brazil's Baniwa people, this piquant pepper-and-salt seasoning now provides the community with sustainable income.

Midnight feasts and fudge-making were mild forms of college rebellion.

America's Early Female College Students Held Illicit Fudge Parties

"Vassar chocolates" became emblems of women's education.

Anne Ewbank June 28, 2019

Elsie Wolff Van Sandau's medal in its original case, as it was found in the drawer.

Found: A British Suffragette's Protest Medal in a Bureau Drawer

No one knows how this piece of history ended up there.

Matthew Taub June 28, 2019

Posing for a picture at Bloodroot restaurant, 1977 or '78.

The Scholar Mapping America's Forgotten Feminist Restaurants

Challenging patriarchy, one eatery at a time.

Reina Gattuso June 21, 2019

Farim Salt

An industry run almost entirely by women is developing new sustainable methods to harvest this highly coveted riverbed salt.

Baleni Salt

A sacred tree, a secret language, and the labor of generations of women keep an ancient tradition of salt harvesting alive.

Bluestockings storefront in 2006.

New York, New York

Bluestockings Bookstore

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Castle of Magyarózd

Home of the first female Hungarian poet, where her secret writing lay hidden for over a century.

Kate Crooks, among the wildflowers.

botanical gardens

In Ontario, a Quest to Rediscover the Work of a Groundbreaking 19th-Century Botanist

Who is Catharine McGill Crooks, and what happened to her specimen collection?

Anna Soper May 23, 2019

Thames Lido.

Reading, England

Thames Lido

Soak up some local history in this restored Edwardian era swimming pool.

The bar, with the window to the snug.

Edinburgh, Scotland

Bennets Bar

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

“The moment I discover a man’s a fool I let him drop,” Bertha Heyman once said.

The Prussian Grifter Who Swindled Her Way to Her Own One-Woman Show

Bertha Heyman lived a life in and out of jail and on and off the stage.

Sabrina Imbler May 10, 2019

Mary Baker pretended to be a princess and ended up selling leeches.

The English Servant Girl Who Pretended to Be an Exotic Island Princess

Mary Baker, better known as Princess Caraboo, convinced an entire town she was eccentric royalty.

Sabrina Imbler May 9, 2019

Thérèse Humbert concocted some very convoluted schemes.

The Parisian Fraudster With Complicated Tales of Imaginary Millionaires

Thérèse Humbert played French bankers like fiddles to live in the lap of luxury.

Sabrina Imbler May 8, 2019