Broad History
Broad History is a history podcast that reexamines the past with a focus on women's roles and perspectives. Hosted by Isabelle Roughol, it aims to tell the stories you thought you knew, but this time including the women who shaped history. The podcast covers a range of historical topics, offering a fresh and inclusive take on the events and figures that have defined our world.
Episodes
The homesteaders trad wives would rather forget about (Megan Kate Nelson, part 2)
In part 2 of our exploration of the American frontier, Megan Kate Nelson introduces two women who belie the homesteader image conservative "trad wives" like to harken back to. Polly Bemis was a Chinese immigrant who built a life and a community in Idaho, despite intense prejudice and stringent anti-Chinese immigration policies. Ella Watson was a self-made homesteader and small rancher, a
The American Frontier you never hear about (Megan Kate Nelson, part 1)
The Western frontier is a foundational myth of the United States. Historian Megan Kate Nelson is here to complicate it with the stories of women who do not at all fit the image of the American pioneer you probably imagine. In part 1 of this two-parter conversation, she (re)introduces us to Sacajawea, the Native American woman who led the Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific, and Gert
History's super confused ideas about women's sex lives (Kate Lister)
The ancient Greeks believed a woman's womb wandered through her body and made her ill. Medieval Europeans believed a woman's orgasm was necessary for conception. And the Victorians believed masturbation would drive you to madness. Sex historian Dr. Kate Lister — host of Betwixt the Sheets and author of Flick: A History of Sexual Pleasure — joins me for a tour through the wildly strange, o
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?
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Isabelle Roughol - Host
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(00:35) - Member shout-out
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(03:04) - This week's story
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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. This is an audio read of The gender pension gap of 1539, or how women got screwed by the Dissolution of Monasteries.
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Isabelle Roughol - Host
What do you think?Read & comment at broadhistory.comEmail me: isa@broadhistory.comJump to: (00:00) - The Gender Pension Gap of 15
"I refuse to be a footnote" – the women who invented literary journalism (Julia Cooke)
Julia Cooke, author of Starry and Restless, joins me to bring back three women who were household names in their day — Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn, and Mickey Hahn — pioneering journalists who covered wars, crossed borders, and revolutionised literary nonfiction decades before the men usually credited with inventing it. We talk about why these women's fame didn't survive them, the chall
"All work is sh*t" or the anti Girl Boss feminism of the 1970s (Emily Callaci)
In the 1970s, Wages for Housework demanded pay for cooking and cleaning without any illusions about making it in the workplace. What if work was never our liberator? On this episode:
Isabelle Roughol - Host
Emily Callaci - Guest
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George Sand outsold Victor Hugo. Then we forgot about her. (Fiona Sampson)
"We raise them like saints, then hand them over like fillies," she said of 19th-century girls. Her best-selling novels were an indictment of arranged marriages and the female condition. At home in France, her contemporaries – Hugo, Flaubert, Balzac – considered her a giant of literature. In England, she outsold Hugo and inspired the Brontë sisters. Today, we don't read her. She's fallen o
The long history of women in work (Victoria Bateman)
Forget the cliché that women suddenly joined the workforce in the middle of the 20th century. They've been active in the economy as long as there's been an economy and not anecdotally. Guest: Victoria Bateman, economic historian and author of Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power.🇬🇧 Buy the book in the UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/9178/9781035415779 🇺🇸 Buy the book in th
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