Rebel Women

Rebel Women is a podcast about history's troublemakers. This episode is the third in our five-part series about the battle for equal pay; a journey that spans nearly 100 years, from the late 1880s to the 1970 Equal Pay Act. The outbreak of war in 1914 cause huge disruption to the education system. As men enlisted, women stepped up to fill the sudden gaping hole in Britain's classrooms. But while w...

Episode 6 The battle for Equal Pay part 2: Women War Time Workers (1900-1918) Rebel Women is a podcast about history's troublemakers. This episode is the second in a five-part series about the battle for equal pay; a journey that spans nearly 100 years, from the late 1880s to the 1970 Equal Pay Act. On the eve of the First World War, women's lives revolved around the home; a sheltered life of serv...

Rebel Women is a podcast about history's troublemakers. This episode is the first in a five-part series about the battle for equal pay; a journey that spans nearly 100 years, from the late 1880s to the 1970 Equal Pay Act. Much of this battle has taken place in the boroughs of East London, and there is a clear reason for this. People join unions when they feel under threat – you see higher membersh...

Rebel Women is a podcast about history's troublemakers.   This episode brings you an audio guided tour of Walthamstow's radical past. The tour was originally intended to be delivered in association with JoyRiders , an organisation which empowers women by introducing them to the joys of cycling.   Walthamstow is mentioned in the Domesday Book as a manor owned by an Anglo-Saxon nobleman ca...

Hackney Rebels Audio Walking Tour   Rebel Women is a podcast about history's troublemakers.   In a change from our usual format, this week Esther Freeman is joined by Simon Cole from Hackney Tours for an audio tour of Hackney in London's East End.   Once a rural idyll, the industrial revolution brought urbanisation and poverty to Hackney, leading in turn to a burgeoning radical soci...

Rebel Women is a podcast about history's troublemakers.   Today's episode features the formation of the Gay Liberation Front, which was inspired by the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York.   Although the GLF was dominated by men, there were women involved, including several who helped write the manifesto.   While Stonewall and the Gay Liberation Front launched the sexual revolution, th...

Rebel Women is a podcast about history's troublemakers.  These women chained themselves to railings, poured ink in postboxes and sometimes worse. One woman even followed Churchill on his public speaking tour, ringing a bell every time he tried to speak.  They defy everything we know about Victorian ladies. They were loud and angry; and they weren't afraid to show it. We feel that same an...

Rebel Women is a podcast about the history of troublemakers in East London. This corner of Britain's capital has seen multiple waves of migration, poverty and persecution. Sometimes feared, always looked down upon, the residents have struggled. But out of these struggles rose up some of history's greatest radicals leaders - leaders of movements that have changed both the local landscape, and wider...