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True history storytelling at the History Café. Join BBC Historian Jon Rosebank & HBO, BBC & C4 script and series editor Penelope Middelboe as we give history a new take. Drop in to the History Café weekly on Wednesdays to give old stories a refreshing new brew. 90+ ever-green stand-alone episodes and building...
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History Cafe Jon Rosebank, Penelope Middelboe

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True history storytelling at the History Café. Join BBC Historian Jon Rosebank & HBO, BBC & C4 script and series editor Penelope Middelboe as we give history a new take. Drop in to the History Café weekly on Wednesdays to give old stories a refreshing new brew. 90+ ever-green stand-alone episodes and building...
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    #94 'Political gangsterdom' - Ep 3 What Wars? What Roses?

    #94 'Political gangsterdom' - Ep 3 What Wars? What Roses?

    By the time Henry VI finally lost the last bit of England's French Empire in 1453 he could no longer go to war in France to occupy and enrich his nobility. This small, interrelated and bickering group, cooped up in England with an agricultural depression settling in, now resorted to what the historian Michael Postan long ago (in 1939) famously called ‘political gangsterdom.’
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    • 35 min
    #93 'A plague on both your houses' - Ep 2 What Wars? What Roses?

    #93 'A plague on both your houses' - Ep 2 What Wars? What Roses?

    Why was the 15th century in England and Wales so violent? It certainly wasn’t York v Lancaster, white-rose v red-rose rivalry. Monarchs were useless but that’s not unique to the 15th century. So what was it that defined this period? It has everything to do with the plague…
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    • 31 min
    #92 'Welcome Traitor!' - Ep 1 What Wars? What Roses?

    #92 'Welcome Traitor!' - Ep 1 What Wars? What Roses?

    Why do we know so little about medieval history? About England and Wales in the fifteenth century? The Wars of the Roses (Lancaster v York) lasted 4 months not the traditional 85 years. Even the roses were (mostly) inventions. And was it even medieval? The execution of the King’s chief minister as a traitor in 1450, by sailors dissatisfied with an ineffective king, was shocking. It revealed that the common people believed the true crown was the community. You can’t get more modern than that.
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    • 28 min
    Ep 1 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #34 Getting the vote in 1918 - the secret strategy

    Ep 1 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #34 Getting the vote in 1918 - the secret strategy

    REPEAT FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY - Mrs Pankhurst claims she won women the vote through ‘marvellous leadership.’ An all-male conference of MPs counters that it gifted women the vote. We reveal that neither is true. The door to women’s suffrage is finally opened in January 1917 through brilliant negotiations behind the scenes by Millicent Fawcett, the president of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage, her female colleagues and the enlightened MPs who work with her. [Please note on our logo the NUWSS colours of berry red and leaf green - not often seen today]
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    • 35 min
    Ep 2 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #35 Most women didn’t want the vote

    Ep 2 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #35 Most women didn’t want the vote

    REPEAT FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY We go back to the great number of unsung women and men who made great strides towards women’s votes and female emancipation by 1900. Emmeline Pankhurst sets up her Women’s Social and Political Union in 1903 as a pressure group for votes for poor working-women in the cotton mills. By then a majority of MPs is already consistently in favour. But the public are uninterested and no government will therefore act. The question is whether the WSPU can find a formula for making ministers give votes to women.


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    • 27 min
    Ep 3 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #36 The Pankhursts didn’t want the poor to get the vote

    Ep 3 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #36 The Pankhursts didn’t want the poor to get the vote

    REPEAT FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY The WSPU – the Pankhurst Suffragettes - begin in the Manchester Labour Party in the 1890s and learn their publicity-grabbing tactics from Labour. But these tactics turn out to have the worst possible effect – making women’s votes even less likely than before. They are so bad, in fact, it makes you wonder whether the Suffragette leadership had some other agenda.
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    • 30 min

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