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

March 27, 2022 4.13 Caterina Sforza (3) A daughter of iniquity
Caterina takes on her most powerful yet - the Borgias

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49 min
March 13, 2022 4.12 Caterina Sforza (2) The Tigress of Forli
With her husband indisposed after an illness and treasury empty, Caterina would need to work hard to prove herself once more as the regent of Imola and Forli.

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40 min
February 27, 2022 4.11 Caterina Sforza (1) Veni, vidi, da Vinci
Caterina Sforza was married young to a scheming relative of the Pope. She would find quickly that to survive, she would need to take matters into her own hands.

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February 13, 2022 4.10 Catherine of Siena (2) Setting the world on fire
Catherine's fame and influence grow, leading her to the papal court itself in Avignon and the heat of the ruptures that would lead to the Great Schism.

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37 min
January 30, 2022 4.09 Catherine of Siena (1) Speaking truth to power
Introducing the writer, church doctor and eventual saint, Catherine of Siena.

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41 min
January 02, 2022 CHAT: Hallie Rubenold on the victims of Jack the Ripper
I speak to historian and author Hallie Rubenhold about the victims of Jack the Ripper, why they have been forgotten and the importance of social history.

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38 min
December 19, 2021 4.08 Joanna of Naples (4) The new Jezebal
Now nearly 40, Joanna had given up hope of producing a natural heir, meaning that now she had to solve a bit of a conundrum - who should succeed her as ruler of Naples?

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42 min
December 05, 2021 4.07 Joanna of Naples (3) Return of the Queen
Joanna sits in triumph back in her capital city, but her kingdom still faced three terrible foes: invaders, plague and internal foes.

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41 min
November 21, 2021 4.06 Joanna of Naples (2) On trial for her life
Following the grisly murder of her husband, Joanna ends up facing war from within and without her kingdom, all of which would end up with her on trial for her life in Avignon.

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37 min
November 07, 2021 4.05 Joanna of Naples (1) Two houses both alike in dignity
We travel to fourteenth-century Naples to hear about one of the most powerful female rulers of the whole medieval period. Joanna of Naples is one of very few queens regnant in the Middle Ages - her reign was action-packed.

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47 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…