When considering women through history we tend to think primarily of the likes of Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria and Eleanor of Aquitaine, says archaeologist Max Adams. So are we neglecting the stories of ordinary women's lives? Contrary to popular belief, the experiences of such women are neither "invisible" nor hard to find, says Adams, arguing that we should look beyond the women who were but "men in petticoats"…
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The first, and longest, imperial dynasty survived thanks to the leading women of Rome. BBC History shares examples of six powerful women who sustained Rome's greatest imperial dynasty in the first century AD.