If the image we have in our heads of what an ‘explorer’ looks like is male, that’s partly because history has focused too heavily on the achievements of men. But there have been plenty of pioneering ...

For historical accuracy, the 33-year-old Brit wears only the cotton dresses, yak wool coats and hobnail boots that her predecessors would have had Claire Turrell | Travel Correspondent Replicating the ...

The imagined female scientists, explorers and adventurers seen in Tonje Bøe Birkeland’s photographs are echoes from a footnote in women’s history. In her ongoing series, The Characters, the ...