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excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's

best-selling history magazine.

I'm Eli Kawthorne.

On today's podcast, we've got a conversation about female fighters through history with the author Julie Wilwright.

Julie's recent book, Sisters in Arms, traces the stories of women warriors from antiquity to the new millennium.

I met up with Julie in London to find out more. How have women been involved in conflicts through history?

And in which conflicts did you find female fighters? Well, we can go all the way back to antiquity.

We can go back to the Scythian women who were

mythologized by the Greeks as the Amazons. And the Scythian women belonged to a nomadic, sort of nomadic

tribes who ranged all the way from the area of the Black Sea, which is now in Ukraine,

all the way to China. And the Black Sea, which is now in Ukraine, all the way to China.

And so these were women who were raised in an egalitarian society or war egalitarian society.

So they were dressed in, they wore the same clothes as boys, and they were also given weapons training,

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