Broad History

Isabelle Roughol
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The history you think you know, with women in it this time

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  1. MAR 5

    George Sand outsold Victor Hugo. Then we forgot about her. (with Fiona Sampson)

    "We raise them like saints, then hand them over like fillies," she said of 19th-century girls. Her best-selling novels were an indictment of arranged marriages and the female condition. At home in France, her contemporaries – Hugo, Flaubert, Balzac – considered her a giant of literature. In England, she outsold Hugo and inspired the Brontë sisters. Today, we don't read her. She's fallen out of the literary canon. If she's known at all, it's for her private life, a scandalous reputation that pop culture has overblown. A new biography of George Sand by British academic and poet Fiona Sampson reveals a thoroughly modern woman, who was centuries ahead in claiming nothing more and nothing less than the freedom to be a complete person.  Creators & Guests Isabelle Roughol - Host Fiona Sampson - Guest ★ Support this podcast ★  🇬🇧 Buy the book in the UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/9178/9781529924336 🇺🇸 Buy the book in the US: https://bookshop.org/a/79408/9781324074915 (Affiliate bookshop.org links support Broad History and indie bookstores.) Click here to watch a video of this episode. Chapters: Click here to view the episode transcript.

    47 min

  2. FEB 12

    The long history of women in work, with Victoria Bateman

    Forget the cliché that women suddenly joined the workforce in the middle of the 20th century. They've been active in the economy as long as there's been an economy and not anecdotally.  Guest: Victoria Bateman, economic historian and author of Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power. 🇬🇧 Buy the book in the UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/9178/9781035415779 🇺🇸 Buy the book in the US: https://bookshop.org/a/79408/9781541606067 (Affiliate bookshop.org links support Broad History and indie bookstores. Everyone wins.) ★ Support this podcast ★

    50 min

  3. JAN 28

    Introducing Broad History

    Broad History

    2 min

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The history you think you know, with women in it this time

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  • Creator
    Isabelle Roughol
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  • Episodes
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    © 2026 Isabelle Roughol
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