All posts Audio‘Step Child’: a play about the surveillance of First World War Indian dissentersWednesday 1 November 2017The British Government promises that all British subjects are equal before the law. But...Audio‘Cama’: a play about a female Indian revolutionary at the time of the First World WarWednesday 1 November 2017In a trench in Marseille the loyalty of three Indian soldiers is tested when...Audio‘The Radicalisation of Vir Singh’: a play about the challenges of serving as an Indian soldier in the First World WarWednesday 1 November 2017Arjun sits restless and scared as he prepares to enter the battlefield for the...Audio‘Smile’: a play about Indian soldiers at the Brighton Pavilion Hospital during the First World WarWednesday 1 November 2017Three Indian soldiers recover at the iconic Brighton Pavilion hospital. Every detail is provided...AudioMapping Women’s SuffrageTuesday 24 October 2017The women’s suffrage campaign in Britain was a particularly long and difficult struggle. It...AudioUnfolding the court case that banned a 1920s lesbian novelMonday 11 September 2017In 1928 Radclyffe Hall wrote ‘The Well of Loneliness’, a novel that featured female characters...AudioThe Sexual Offences Act 1967. Part 2: Wolfenden’s silent womenTuesday 29 August 2017On 27 July 2017, The National Archives held a day of talks to mark the...AudioThe Sexual Offences Act 1967. Part 1: The lives of men from 1953 to the 1967 ActTuesday 29 August 2017On 27 July 2017, The National Archives held a day of talks to mark the...AudioTudor trials: Confessions from the Star ChamberTuesday 15 August 2017Medieval records specialist Euan Roger gives us a taste of the kinds of disputes...AudioJane Austen: from beginning to endWednesday 9 August 2017To commemorate the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death in 1817, Professor Fiona Stafford delivered a...AudioA tormented Tudor queen’s treasonous ‘love letter’Tuesday 1 August 2017In this episode, Neil Johnston and Christopher Day discuss a letter written by Catherine...AudioSexuality under scrutiny in 1930s SohoTuesday 18 July 2017In 1934, homosexual acts between men – in public and in private – were... « 1 … 13 14 15 16 17 … 90 »