Women's History Month 2022

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Suggested films & series

A determined, working class woman, Clarice Cliff, breaks the glass ceiling and revolutionises the workplace in the 20th century.

The Suffragettes

History KS3: How the Votes for Women campaign began

History KS3: Historical sources and interpretations of Emmeline Pankhurst

History KS3: How Manchester shaped Emmeline Pankhurst

History KS3: The life and work of Emmeline Pankhurst

BBC Short Videos

BBC Arts - Sandi Toksvig’s Women from HistorySandi Toksvig, Maxine Peake and Emma Dabiri on women in history you may not have heard of.

BBC Radio 3 - Free Thinking, New research into women's historyThe Clean Break theatre company, sex strikes, East European feminism. Naomi Paxton hosts.

BBC News Channel - Witness History, Women-Led MovementsFarhana Haider looks back at five campaigns and protest movements headed by women.

BBC World Service - Witness History, Women's Rights In IranIran's first ever Minister for Women's Affairs was appointed in 1975.

BBC World Service - Witness History, Women's Institute at 100The British women's organisation set up to revitalise rural communities during WW1

BBC World Service - Witness History, Iceland's Women StrikeIn October 1975, 90% of all women in Iceland took part in a massive nationwide protest

BBC World Service - The History Hour, The Greenham Common women's peace campThe anti-nuclear weapons protest began in 1981 and lasted nineteen years

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