Philippa tells the story of women rebels and rioters - from the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt to those arrested at the vigil for Sarah Everard. We hear from 'Captain' Ann Carter, leader of a seventeenth century food riot, hanged by the authorities and just one of the thousands of women Philippa has rescued from the footnotes of history and placed at the heart of her book 'Normal Women - 900 years of Making History'.
Joining Philippa to discuss women-led strikes, protests and rebellions are:
Normal Women is Philippa Gregory's radical retelling of our nation’s story – not of the rise and fall of kings and the occasional queen, but a history of the millions of women missing from the record: wives and workers, viragoes and angels, female husbands, priests and pirates.
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8. Normal women...are married, divorced and single
7. Normal women...are beyond definition
6. Normal Women...are a weaker vessel
5. Normal Women...think about rape
4. Normal Women...are underpaid
3. Normal Women...love women
2. Normal Women...are angels
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