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1 Thomas Thornycroft’s statue of Boadicea and her daughters (photograph by Sue Lanzon)
2 Boadicea, from Thomas Heywood’s Exemplary Lives (British Library)
3 Boadicea, from Aylett Sammes’ Britannia Antiqua Illustrata (British Library)
4 ‘Boadicea haranguing the Britons’, by H. C. Selous (Mansell Collection)
5 Boadicea, from H. E. Marshall’s Our Island Story
6 The Boudican firing of Londinium, by Richard Sorrell (Museum of London)
7 Boadicea and her ladies, from Holinshed’s Chronicles (British Library)
8 The Britons’ last battle against the Romans, by Alan Sorrell (Museum of London)
9 Crater depicting Amazons fighting Greeks (Mansell Collection)
10 Engraving of Cleopatra (Mary Evans Picture Library)
11 Ptolemaic plaque showing Cleopatra (Werner Forman Archive/Schindler Collection, New York)
12 Judith and Holofernes (Ronald Sheridan/Ancient Art and Architecture Collection)
13 Engraving of Zenobia (Hulton Picture Library)
14 Semiramis (Mansell Collection)
15 The Trung sisters (print kindly supplied by Dr. Ralph Smith)
16 Trieu Au (Maurice Durand Collection of Vietnamese Art, Yale University Library)
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17 Countess Matilda of Tuscany (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana)
18 The Empress Maud (British Library)
19 Countess Matilda at Canossa, by Alfred Cluysenaar (Roget-Viollet)
20 Queen Tamara (Mary Evans Picture Library)
21 Monogram of Queen Tamara
22 Queen Isabella, a detail from The Madonna of the Catholic Kings (Oronoz, Madrid)
23 Medal showing Caterina Sforza (Victoria and Albert Museum)
24 Triumphal entry of Ferdinand and Isabella into Granada (Foto Mas, Barcelona)
25 William Rogers’ Eliza, Triumphans (Weidenfeld & Nicholson Archive)
26 Joris Hoefnagel (attrib.), Queen Elizabeth and the Three Goddesses (reproduced by gracious permission of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
27 Queen Elizabeth I at Tilbury (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
28 Queen Jinga being received by the Portuguese Governor (photograph supplied by the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University)
29 Queen Jinga receiving Christian baptism (photograph supplied by SOAS, London University)
30 Queen Jinga venerating her brother’s bones (photograph supplied by SOAS, London University)
31 Statue of Queen Anne by Rysbrack (photograph by Edwin Smith)
32 Catherine the Great (Novosti Press Agency)
33 The Empress Maria Theresa of Austria (Archiv Gerstenberg)
34 Monument to Maria Theresa in Vienna (Roger-Viollet)
35 Queen Louise of Prussia, a portrait by Joseph Grassi (Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz)
36 Queen Louise, King Frederick William III of Prussia, and Tsar Alexander I at the tomb of Frederick the Great (Ullstein Bilderdienst)
37 Napoleon receiving Queen Louise at Tilsit, by N. L. F. Gosse (Ullstein Bilderdienst)
38 Kalighat watercolour of the Rani of Jhansi (Victoria and Albert Museum)
39 Contemporary painting of the Rani of Jhansi (photograph supplied by the Royal Commonwealth Society)
40 Site of the massacre at Jhansi (British Library)
41 Durga (Victoria and Albert Museum)
42 Statue of the Rani of Jhansi at Gwalior (photograph by Sophie Baker)
43 Golda Meir (Camera Press—Goldman/Setton, London)
44 Indira Gandhi (photograph by N. V. Edwards, Camera Press, London)
45 Margaret Thatcher (Press Association)
46 Queen Elizabeth II at the Trooping of the Colour (Hulton Picture Library)
47 Mrs. Thatcher with members of her Cabinet (Associated Press)
48 Cartoon of Mrs. Thatcher driving a chariot, by Griffin (Express Newspapers)