The Everyday Lives of Parisian Women and the October Days of 1789 - David Garrioch

'The men are holding back, the men are cowards . . . we will take over'

On 5 October 1789 thousands of Parisian women tramped twelve miles to Versailles to bring the king back to the capital. This event radicalised the French Revolution.

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Women' s March to Versailles during the French Revolution

A political revolution for women? The case of Paris - Darline Gay Levy and Harriet B. Applewhite

The women's march to Versailles capped months of women's political involvement…

The Boston Massacre during the American Revolution

Food rioters and the American Revolution - Barbara Clark Smith

On more than thirty occasions between 1776 and 1779, American men and women gathered in crowds to…

"Liberty leading the People" by Eugène Delacroix

The great French revolution, 1789-1793 - Peter Kropotkin

Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin's extensive history and analysis of the French Revolution of 1789.

Women and communal strikes in the crisis of 1917-1922 - Temma Kaplan

An article on women's pivotal role in Russia, Italy, Spain and Mexico during the revolutionary wave…