When Britain called on the Caribbean for support in World War Two, more than 10,000 men and women crossed the Atlantic to help the war effort. WW2: Did the war introduce designer fashion to our ...

Jackie Moggridge's achievements were numerous - she was the first woman in South Africa to do a parachute jump, she flew more than 1,400 aircraft as a World War Two ferry pilot, she was one of only ...

she was one of only five women to gain their RAF wings after the war, and she became Britain's first woman commercial airline captain in 1957. "She was desperate to be a pilot," said Ms Adkins.

Women are angry, and they are prolific – one of the surprises upon entering ‘Women in Revolt!’, a new exhibition at Tate Britain that puts feminist art from 1970 to 1990 under the lens, is its sheer ...