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

June 08, 2025 6.09 Edith Cavell (2) Under the Eagle's Shadow
As the German occupation tightens its grip, Edith Cavell risks everything to save Allied soldiers, transforming her clinic into a clandestine lifeline under the constant threat of betrayal and arrest.

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46 min
May 25, 2025 6.08 Edith Cavell (1) Belgium's Florence Nightingale
A vicar's daughter became the founding mother of modern Belgian nursing, but the outbreak of the First World War would change her life forever.

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36 min
May 05, 2025 6.07 Elizabeth Van Lew (3) Exhuming a hero
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If you ever find yourself in need of someone to help you dig up a dead body - Elizabeth Van Lew is your woman. As the US Civil War reaches its bloody climax, Elizabeth rises to the occasion turning the Richmond Underground into an intelligence machine. She played a significant role in winning the war, but it would cost her dearly.

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59 min
April 06, 2025 6.06 Elizabeth Van Lew (2) The Spy and the Beast
Against an outpouring of support for the new Confederacy, Elizabeth begins her journey as a spy, establishes the Richmond Underground and helps enable one of the biggest prison breaks of the war.

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50 min
March 16, 2025 6.05 Elizabeth Van Lew (1) My country, oh my country!
Wealthy, well-connected people rarely rebel - but Southern socialite Elizabeth van Lew would be an exception.

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35 min
February 23, 2025 6.04 Policarpa Salavarrieta: The Seamstress Spy
Revolutionary heroes can come from anywhere - and Colombia found one in their seamstress spy, Policarpa Salavarietta

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29 min
February 02, 2025 6.03 Jane Whorwood (2) Agent 409
With her beloved king in custody, Jane does everything in her power to break him out of captivity.

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46 min
January 19, 2025 6.02 Jane Whorwood (1) The gold smuggler royal
Fleeing an unhappy marriage and filled with royalist fervour, a young Scottish courtier spies, smuggles and embezzled for her king during the English Civil War

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42 min
January 05, 2025 6.01 Sisterhood of Spies: History's greatest female secret agents
While the image of the spy is often a suave man in a tuxedo - the history of espionage is populated by a number of talented and courageous female spies.

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25 min
December 25, 2024 Get ready for Season 6!
As a Christmas bonus, I reveal the state for the premiere of Season 6: The Sisterhood of Spies
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6 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…