Gertrude Bell, the hugely influential travel writer, was another: a founding member of the Women’s National Anti-Suffrage League. Inside Marilyn Monroe's DRAMATIC transformation from unknown nobody Norma Jeane into an on-screen icon... 10 years after auctioned medical records revealed she HAD undergone plastic surgery From Jerusalem to Mongolia and the amazing wrestling warrior princess, Khutulun. The great-great-granddaughter of Genghis Kahn and the most trusted military adviser and general to her father, Kaidu Khan, she was also a famous wrestler. Legend has it that she said she would only marry the man who could beat her in a wrestling competition. If she won, they had to present her with one hundred horses – some versions of the story say one thousand – and she is reputed to have built up her own herd of ten thousand horses. . . Ethel Smyth, the great suffragette campaigner and composer, and the only composer to have been awarded a Damehood. KATE MOSSE’s non-fiction book – Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries – is like the full-to-bursting suitcase you have to sit on before you can do up the latches. (Why am I obsessed with metaphors? I think it’s sheer excitement.)

The statue of Laskarina Bouboulina heroine of the Greek war of independence in Spetses island, Greece Kim Kardashian's daughter North West gets her own magazine cover! The star, 10, reveals she inherited dad Kanye West's 'love of performing' Big Brother SPOILER: Drama ERUPTS after Noky and Trish's cursed nominations are revealed to the rest of the house Robert DeNiro arrives at court to testify against his former assistant who accused him of sexual harassment and bullying It's not my problem!': James Haskell tells Chloe Madeley to 'go speak to a therapist' after she admitted his snaps with bikini-clad girls 'embarrassed' herSelling Sunset's Chrishell Stause defends herself after slamming Jason Oppenheim's ex for misgendering her partner G Flip Kerry Katona reveals she is getting into the Christmas spirit early by putting up her tree and decorations on November 1 ahead of move to Spain Everybody? Hmm. As Kate Mosse points out, despite her having an embarrassment of women to choose from for her book, the world hasn’t quite felt the same way. Take statues, for example.

It was in this same spirit of rewriting the book of myths that we launched #WomanInHistory in January, a global campaign inviting people from all over the world to nominate a woman from history they wanted to honour or thought should be better known. Why are women’s achievements so often overlooked or misattributed? Is it accident, design, politics, neglect?Mariah Carey takes the plunge in low-cut sequined red dress while channeling Jessica Rabbit for her glamorous Halloween costume Meghan's estranged BFF Jessica Mulroney remind fans of her OTHER brushes with royalty as she shares photos... Little-known right to help YOU beat NHS waiting lists without having to wait for hospitals to invite you... as data reveals how many patients are waiting at YOUR trust