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
Isabelle Roughol
Founder & host, Broad History | Indie media executive | Storyteller, journalist & public historian
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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
Women of World War II in the (once) lost photographs of Pierre Roughol
I've spent the last few years digitising and researching my great uncle's archives from the war
The fire that started a Victorian gender war
Paris, 1897. The Bazar de la Charité blaze killed 118 women and girls. Where were the men?
Jiu-jitsuing suffragettes, nuns hard done by and the first women's football match
A women's history guided tour on London's Suffragette line
Who were the French women celebrated in the Olympics opening ceremony?
Whom we choose to put on a pedestal says a lot about our culture. The world over, public space is still dominated by male imagery.
