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Emma Dabiri “Merriman-Labor’s searing satire of the British was not well received” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Fern Riddell

Contraception, consent & erotic connection: sex through history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tim Maltin answers listener questions about the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912. (Image by Getty Images)

Titanic: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Fern Riddell Sex: Lessons from History . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Welfare campaigner Emily Hobhouse

History hero Anita Anand chooses Emily Hobhouse (1860–1926) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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In 1910 Lydia Harvey seemed to disappear. Julia Laite delves into her story – one of exploitation, sex and the vagaries of justice – and the trial that brought it to light.

Traffickers on trial: the sensational case of Lydia Harvey . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Shrabani Basu talks about a miscarriage of justice that exposed the racial tensions of Edwardian England and captured the imagination of the creator of Sherlock Holmes. (Image by Getty Images)

Hate mail & mutilated horses: Conan Doyle investigates . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Fern Riddell explores some of the darker aspects of the campaign for votes for women, in this episode from our archive. (Image by Getty Images)

Were the suffragettes terrorists? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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George Washington Carver in a laboratory

History hero Gillian Burke chooses George Washington Carver (c1864–1943) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Fern Riddell "Can we call the suffragettes terrorists? Absolutely" . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Victoria with her children and grandchildren

The marriages of Queen Victoria’s grandchildren: how the dynasty shaped Europe

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A suffragette march

The Suffragettes: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett

Percy Fawcett and the search for the ‘Lost City Of Z’

PT Barnum and General Tom Thumb

The greatest show on earth? The myths of the Victorian freak show

A group of men stand at a booth whose banner reads 'Headquarters National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage,' early 1910s. (Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images)

Anti-suffrage: the women who didn’t want the vote