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?
19th century
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“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.
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.
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France
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
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France
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.
