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Mary Ware Dennett was one of the most important and influential activist for women's rights, contraception, free speech and sex... more

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Travel to snowy Victorian Maine in this year's Christmas Special, as Katie reads from the memoirs of Sarah Orne Jewett.... more

Zeynab Pasha was one of the most influential voices during several crises of 19th century Iranian history. From the Bread... more

If you knew the recipe for an undetectable poison, would you use it? What about giving it to women with... more

When Sigrid Schultz was offered a job as a reporter in Berlin, Germany in 1919, she had no idea how... more