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What's the state of women's history in 2025?

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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What is new research revealing about women's lives in the past? Does all women's history have to be feminist? And why do we need to be cautious about the 'girlbossification' of historical figures? To mark International Women's Day, Ellie Cawthorne speaks to three expert historians – Sarah Richardson, Hannah Skoda and Hannah Cusworth – to get their thoughts on the biggest trends and challenges in the field of women's history at the moment. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.

0:43.4

What is new research revealing about women's lives in the past? Does all women's history have to be feminist?

0:52.2

And why do we need to be cautious about the so-called girl-bossification

0:56.7

of historical figures? To mark International Women's Day, I brought together a panel of three

1:02.8

expert historians, Sarah Richardson, Hannah Skoda and Hannah Cousworth, to get their thoughts on the

1:08.9

biggest trends and challenges in the field of women's

1:12.5

history at the moment. What would be great is if you could all introduce yourself, first of all.

1:18.0

I wonder if we could start with Hannah Cis. Hi, I'm Hannah Cussworth or Hannah Cis for the purposes

1:25.1

of this discussion. I am a curatorial fellow at Queen's House as part

1:29.9

of Royal Museums Greenwich and also a doctoral student with English Heritage. Thank you very much, Sarah.

1:36.0

Hi, everyone. I'm Sarah Richardson. I'm a professor of modern British history at University of Glasgow,

1:42.2

but I'm also convener of the Women's History Network.

1:45.9

Fantastic. And finally, Hannah Skoda. Hi, everyone. I'm Hannah Skoda. I'm a fellow and tutor in

1:51.5

medieval history at St. John's College in Oxford. Thank you so much. It's great to have you all with me

1:57.1

to talk about some of the central themes in women's history today. So we're speaking now

2:02.3

in 2025. And I'm wondering whether there are some aspects of women's history that you think are

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