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

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 so-called girl-bossification of historical figures? To mark International

Women's Day, I brought together a panel of three expert historians, Sarah Richardson, Hannah

Skoda and Hannah Cousworth, to get their thoughts on the

biggest trends and challenges in the field of women's history at the moment.

What would be great is if you could all introduce yourself, first of all, I wonder if we

could start with Hannah C. Hi, I'm Hannah Cussworth or Hannacy for the purposes of this discussion. I am a

curatorial fellow at Queen's House as part of Royal Museums Greenwich and also a doctoral student

with English Heritage. Thank you very much, Sarah. Hi, everyone. I'm Sarah Richardson. I'm a professor

of modern British history at University of Glasgow,

but I'm also convener of the Women's History Network. Fantastic. And finally, Hannah Skoda.

Hi, everyone. I'm Hannah Skoda. I'm a fellow and tutor in medieval history at St. John's College in

Oxford. Thank you so much. It's great to have you all with me to talk about some of the central

themes in women's history today. So we're speaking now in 2025, and I'm wondering whether

there are some aspects of women's history that you think are getting particular attention now

that maybe haven't been focused on so much in the past. Sarah, I wonder,

as Combinah of the Women's History Network, if you might be a good person to kick us off on this

one. Yes, certainly. I think that the intersectionality between women's history and other different

approaches to history is really coming to the fore recently. So one particular area is disability history

and the connections between women and disability and their role as carers, their role of

enablers, their role as activists. So there's been some really interesting work, for example,

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