The Other Half: The History of Women Through the Ages

By James BoultonSociety & Culture Education History

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The Other Half: The History of Women Through the Ages episodes

September 08, 2019 2.24 Ella (3) The First Lady of Moscow
Ella's worldview comes into conflict with that of Sergei’s as they moved from their home in St Petersburg to the ancient Russian metropolis of Moscow. Meanwhile, conflict at home and abroad causes Ella's world to change forever.
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44 min
August 26, 2019 2.23 Ella (2) Coronation and conversion
Ella leaves her (relatively) upbringing in Darmstadt for the opulence and rampant excesses of life in St Petersburg as the wife of a Romanov.
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40 min
August 11, 2019 2.22 Ella (1) Hesse's Helen
No country was more profoundly changed by World War I than Russia, and at the centre of its revolutionary story are two Hessian princesses.

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39 min
July 28, 2019 2.21 Maud of Wales (2) The reluctant queen
Maud of Wales became queen of a newly formed country in one of the most turbulent times in modern European history.

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Maud and her family skiing
King Edward VII's funeral
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27 min
July 14, 2019 2.20 Maud of Wales (1) Princess Harry
Today we look at a woman who married into a kingdom that doesn’t get much coverage in mainstream history - Maud, a daughter of Bertie, the Prince of Wales and future King Edward VII.

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31 min
June 30, 2019 2.19 Sophia (4) Triumph and disaster
We last left Sophia on a boat into exile. She would end up in Switzerland, but she wouldn't be there for long.
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38 min
June 16, 2019 2.18 Sophia (3) Stabbed in the back
Sophia became Queen of Greece at a great tipping point in its history. It would be a very turbulent reign.
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36 min
June 02, 2019 2.17 Sophia (2) The Great Idea
Sophia of Prussia settles into her kingdom, which was new in more ways than one.

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35 min
May 05, 2019 2.16 Sophia (1) Fulfilling the prophecy
The daughters of Queen Victoria grew up at the height of the Victorian era - their granddaughters would be left to pick up the pieces. Today, we begin the second half of this season with Princess Sophia of Prussia
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26 min
April 21, 2019 2.15 Helena and Louise: The other daughters
A brief (well not really) telling of the lives of Victoria's other two daughters.
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52 min

About The Other Half: The History of Women Through the Ages

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Women make up half of the world's population, and yet history books often consign them to the sidelines. They are dismissed as merely the wives of powerful men; babymakers and nothing more. Yet women…