Women's football teams enjoyed great success in the first decades of the twentieth century. But in 1921, the Football Association introduced a ban that stayed in place for 50 years...

The first woman to be commemorated with a statue in Parliament Square was the suffragist campaigner Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett...

In my novel, Death at Crookham Hall, a murder takes place in 1920 in the real-life location of the Basingstoke Canal as it runs through Crookham. When I wrote this book, I had no idea that a tragic murder had taken place there in 1925…

On 21st May 1914, Emmeline Pankhurst was arrested at the gates of Buckingham Palace. She was trying to lead a delegation to see King George V - but more than 2,000 police officers were sent to stop her.

In 1909, four suffragettes chained themselves to statues in the Palace of Westminster to protest against a law banning disorderly conduct inside the Palace while Parliament was in session...

In the Iris Woodmore Mysteries, Iris is a young journalist who turns sleuth. The novels are set in the 1920s, and there were no female detectives in the British police force at this time. But all that was about to change…

Considered a royal rebel, Queen Victoria's fourth daughter Princess Louise was an advocate of women’s rights and supported the suffrage movement...

Research is one of my favourite aspects of being a historical crime fiction writer. However, it's easy to become sidetracked...