Isabelle Roughol
Founder & host, Broad History | Indie media executive | Storyteller, journalist & public historian
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Four World War II movies we should be making before making one about the weather
No flak to Pressure, but if we can make a blockbuster war movie about a meteorologist, surely we can make some about women too
"All work is sh*t" or how anti-Girl Boss feminism might have got it right
In the 1970s, Wages for Housework demanded pay for cooking and cleaning without any illusions about making it in the workplace
EP 03: The Wages for Housework movement, with Emily Callaci
“They say it is love. We say it is unwaged work.”
The greatest filmmaker you've never heard of
She was one of the founders of cinema. She ran two of the world's biggest film studios and directed more than 600 films. You've heard of Lumière, Méliès, Gaumont or Pathé. Why not of her?
“We raise them like saints, then hand them over like fillies”
19th-century girls' so-called education dropped them clueless into life
George Sand outsold Victor Hugo. Then we forgot about her.
Episode 2: How a best-selling author revered by her peers disappeared from the literary canon
EP 02: Becoming George Sand, with Fiona Sampson
She outsold Victor Hugo. Then we forgot about her.
We've been very wrong about Stone Age women
"Never assume" is a golden rule – especially when looking at 10,000-year-old human remains
The housewife is a Victorian invention
Women didn't ruin the workplace. They were always there.
EP 01: The long history of women's paid work, with Victoria Bateman
Women didn't ruin the workplace. They've always been there.
One day, the Epstein files will be history
Another major historical record in which women will be invisible
