What is that primogeniture thing, anyway?
The rules of succession; or, how to pick your king (and avoid a queen)
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Ep 5 | The gender pension gap of 1539, or how women got screwed by the Dissolution of Monasteries
Don't work but don't get married and don't count on a living pension
"I refuse to be a footnote": the women who transformed war reporting
Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn and Mickey Hahn covered near every conflict of the 20th century. They invented the literary journalism we know today.
Ep 4 | The mothers of war reporting (Julia Cooke)
"I refuse to be a footnote in somebody else's story"
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 3 | "All work is sh*t" or the anti Girl Boss feminism of the 1970s (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 2 | George Sand, literary rock star (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
