Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History magazine, Britain's best

selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Corthon.

Today is International Women's Day and to mark the occasion we've got a special panel

discussion all about women's history.

Our expert panel tackles some of the biggest issues in the field including overlooked historical

figures, exciting recent developments, whether men should write women's history and what

work is still left to be done in telling women's stories.

I was joined in the discussion by Helen McCarthy, Stella Dazzy, Nicola Phillips and Maggie Andrews.

And as you'll hear, I started off by asking them all to introduce themselves.

Hi, I'm Helen McCarthy.

I teach modern British history at the University of Cambridge and I've written quite a few books

on women's history.

I wrote a book about women in British diplomatic life since the 19th century and I've most

recently just published a history of working mothers in Britain over the past century and

a half or so.

Hi, my name is Stella Dazzy.

I'm probably best known as one of the co-authors of the book, The Heart of the Race and one

the Martin Luther King Award for Literature but was recently republished by Versa as a

feminist classic.

I recently published a book called A Kick in the Belly which looks at women's slavery and

resistance and I'm an historian and education activist and a writer.

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