How one of history's deadliest tragedies for women became a fight about what real men are made of
This week, enjoy an audio long read of an archive piece (and excuses)
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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
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.
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?
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.
