Ep 11 | American Revolution | 2 | Abigail Adams, capitalist (Woody Holton)
"She made a killing!"
Episodes
All published episodes of Broad History
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Ep 10 | American Revolution | 1 | The political awakening of American women (Carol Berkin)
"It happened just like that, boom!"
Ep 9 | The homesteaders trad wives would rather forget about (Megan Kate Nelson, part 2)
Mythologised Frontier imagery is all over the far right agenda
Ep 8 | The American Frontier you never hear about (Megan Kate Nelson, part 1)
" Most white Americans could not conceive of a successful woman in the American West if she was not a prostitute."
Ep 7 | History's super confused ideas about women's sex lives (Kate Lister)
"Girls will be girls"
Ep 6 | The fire that started a gender war
How one of history's deadliest tragedies for women became a fight about what real men are made of
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
Ep 4 | The mothers of war reporting (Julia Cooke)
"I refuse to be a footnote in somebody else's story"
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.”
Ep 2 | George Sand, literary rock star (Fiona Sampson)
She outsold Victor Hugo. Then we forgot about her.
Ep 1 | Women have always had jobs (Victoria Bateman)
Women didn't ruin the workplace. They've always been there.
