Kirsty Wark reveals how pioneering women of the 1960s and 70s seized the baton from previous generations and surged...
1898: Dr and Mrs Pankhurst and their four children are living comfortably in Manchester. However, in that year an event occurs which ...
1904: Annie Kenney - a mill worker since the age of ten. What has Women's Suffrage to offer her?
Kirsty Wark explores the 1980s and 90s, when legislative leaps enshrined new rights for women. But with sexism rife,...
This programme investigates the Suffragette movement.
Women struggle to win political and economic rights in societies gamed to entrench male privilege. Even with limited suffr...
Kirsty Wark navigates the devolution era and reveals what happens when women take the lead, from the sh...
Only one in four GP's in Britain is a woman. How were women excluded from medicine during the Middle Ages, & what problems did ...
The impact of the hunger strikes is seen through the eyes of three women. Tit-for-tat killings, car bombs and...
The First World War was a total war. Nobody escaped, even the women and children at home. In this third section we look at how the lives of ...
Women, discussing how women's roles and expectations in society changed as a result of the war.
Black Friday - 18 November 1910. A violent struggle in Parliament Square between suffragettes and police. But why don't the po...
Philippa Stewart, biographer of Florence Nightingale, narrates her life story through on-location reports from places she live...
Exploring the achievements of the greatest figures of the 20th century. Examining the lives of Emmeline Pankhurst, Mahatma Gandhi, Helen Keller and Mart...
The campaign grows. Suffragettes destroy property, and Emily Wilding Davison becomes a martyr to the cause.
1914: War is declared, and women still do not have the vote.
The arrival of the maid has given Joyce the freedom to investigate the history of the suffragette movement. But the more she learns...
Layla Wright travels to the USA to meet the influencer women posting antifeminist and other offensive content online.
In 1913 Suffragette Emily Davison stepped into the path of the King's horse at the Derby. Clare Balding examines the story of ...
An introduction to the Dick Kerr Ladies football team.
Documentary series presented by Amanda Vickery exploring the origins of the suffragette movement, beginning wi...
Documentary series presented by Amanda Vickery. During Victoria's reign extraordinary women gradually changed ...
Documentary series presented by Amanda Vickery. Vickery explores how the Edwardian suffragette movement became...
Film following the life of an extraordinary woman, a trailblazer who revolutionised modern nursing and reformed healthcare at home and ...
Nurse, statistician and social reformer - the Lady with the Lamp did a lot of amazing things!
Distinguished war reporter Kate Adie examines the impact of women's work on the Home Front during the First World War.
A comedy about the celebrated 18th century comedienne, Kitty Clive.
Comedy drama charting the fight of female factory workers at the Ford Dagenham plant for equal pay. In 1968, one determined factory worker leads her ...
Mary Seacole's life as a nurse in the Crimean War.
Exam revision programme focusing on the Liberal reforms, women's suffrage, the Home Front, the General Strike, the Depression...
Among the worst jobs in the city are hunch backed water caddy, daring fire fighter, dangerous docker, deal ...
Lucy explores the myths and fibs that swirl around the dramatic events of 1917 and discov...
A look at the social and economic changes which took place during Queen Victoria's reign, such as indus...
Protests about inequality or environmental damage are common today, but how have people protested in the past? Emmeline ...
It was the campaign that changed the lives of British women forever. Actress Sheila Hancock is given unprecedented access to the Mu...
Documentary, presented by Lucy Worsley, which uses dramatised testimony to tell the story of a group of working-class women conducting a dange...
Investigating the financial reasons behind the FA's ban of women's football in 1921.
The popularity of the Dick Kerr Ladies football team.
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