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
American Revolution | Part 7 | Republican motherhood and the long impact of the Revolution (with Carol Berkin)
Republican motherhood is a fundamental concept of the early American republic. Women's political power, it argues, is exercised not at the ballot box but in their own separate sphere, where they raise good little patriots. Carol Berkin concludes our series with a look at the long impact of the American revolution for women and connects the dots with the United States' current political la
American Revolution | Part 6 | Mercy Otis Warren and the female politicians (with Rosemarie Zagarri)
Mercy Otis Warren was what the Revolution called a "female politician" – a woman who cared about and discussed politics, a wholly new archetype for American society then. Her poems, plays and pamphlets – and ultimately her 3-volume history of the revolution – established her as a key political thinker of the movement for independence. But she walked a fine line: she never meant to "transg
American Revolution | Part 5 | Phillis Wheatley Peters, unofficial poet laureate of the new United States (with Vin Carretta)
Phillis Wheatley Peters was transported to America as an enslaved 7-year-old. She quickly became a literary prodigy and an international celebrity – the unofficial first poet laureate of a new nation, says her biographer Vincent Carretta. Together we explore her life, her legacy and recent findings that transform our understanding of the final years of her too-short life. 🇺🇸 Get the books
American Revolution | Part 4 | Elizabeth Freeman, the woman who sued her enslavers (with Errin Haines)
When Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman overheard the opening of the new Massachussetts constitution in 1780 – "all men are born free and equal" – she knew the words had to apply to her, too. Elizabeth was the first enslaved woman to sue for and win her freedom in a US court. To talk about arguably the most impactful woman in this series and the true meaning of freedom and the American promise, I
American Revolution | Part 3 | The Schuyler sisters: Inside America's most famous love triangle (with Amanda Vaill)
What really happened between Angelica and Hamilton? Did she really ask her sister to "lend him to me for a little while"? Why did Eliza sign her name to the Federalist papers? Did Angelica get a little too close to Jefferson? What about all the Schuyler siblings who didn't make the musical? Join me in conversation with the Schuyler sisters' Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Amanda Vaill f
American Revolution | Part 2 | What Abigail Adams really meant by "Remember the ladies" (with Woody Holton)
Abigail Adams made a killing in war bonds (and possibly a bit of insider trading). She used John Adams' diplomatic posting to import luxury goods from France and resell them at an insane markup. She's the reason her civil servant husband, unlike many of the founding fathers, did not die in massive debt. But as a married woman, she could not own anything in her own name or keep the proceed
American Revolution | Part 1 | The political awakening of American women (with Carol Berkin)
The most radical thing about the American Revolution? The sudden politicisation of colonial women, argues Dr Carol Berkin, author of "Revolutionary Mothers" and one of the preeminent historians of women in the early United States. Women were the main organisers of the boycotts of British goods, which fanned the flames of revolution. They were involved in every aspect of the war – except i
The Real American Frontier | Part 2 | The homesteaders trad wives would rather forget about (with Megan Kate Nelson)
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 Real American Frontier | Part 1 | The West you never hear about (with Megan Kate Nelson)
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 (with 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 (long read)
Paris, 1897. The Bazar de la Charité blaze killed 118 women and girls. Where were the men?
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The gender pension gap of 1539, or how women got screwed by the Dissolution of Monasteries (long read)
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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What do you think?Read & comment at broadhistory.comEmail me: isa@broadhistory.comJump to: (00:00) - The Gender Pension Gap of 15
The women who invented modern war reporting (with 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 (with 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:
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Emily Callaci - Guest
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George Sand, the author who outsold Victor Hugo (with 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
Women have always had jobs (with 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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