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Keen to put the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle Politely Requests Women's Suffrage on the map, the women plan to picket the post office with placards.

Dr Pamela Cox charts the history of the shopgirl. She begins in the mid-19th century, when shops were owned and staffed by men. Show more

Kirsty Wark celebrates the life and work of Scottish writer Dame Muriel Spark, one of the 20th century's most enigmatic cultural figures, on the 100th anniversary of her birth. Show more

A monologue capturing the moment when a 19-year-old in Leeds in 1977 decides she won't be confined to her house.

A monologue inspired by the story of Pritilata Waddedar, who campaigned for Bengali women to get the right to vote in 1930s colonial India.

Martha Kearney, novelist Helen Oyeyemi and journalist Lucy Mangan travel to Haworth Parsonage, the home of Charlotte and her sisters Emily and Anne. Show more

Miranda Sawyer meets some of the key female figures of the punk era to look at how they radically changed the cultural landscape and inspired a generation of young women. Show more

Sue Perkins explores the highs and lows of being a woman in the unashamedly macho world of stand-up comedy, as she follows three stand-up comedians at the Edinburgh Festival. Show more

Dr Pamela Cox charts the history of the shopgirl. She begins in the mid-19th century, when shops were owned and staffed by men. Show more

Documentary series presented by Amanda Vickery. Vickery explores how the Edwardian suffragette movement became a quasi-terrorist organisation enacting a violent campaign. Show more

Kirsty Wark celebrates the life and work of Scottish writer Dame Muriel Spark, one of the 20th century's most enigmatic cultural figures, on the 100th anniversary of her birth. Show more