How we can discover the lives of women who lived in the past? We explore this topic by using Wolverton Carriage & Wagon Works and the Saxon cemetery at Wolverton as examples. Can we ever really know a skeleton’s gender? How many women were working at the male-dominated factory and what were they doing? Listen on to find out!

Online exhibition: https://bit.ly/WorksWomen

Transcript available at https://miltonkeynesmuseum.org.uk/under-the-grid-podcast/

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