In The Nineteenth Century
'In the nineteenth century’ is a podcast series about the wild, wonderful, brave, eccentric, and at times dastardly, people who characterised this remarkable period. It looks at their inspiring discoveries and reforms, and the sometimes, shameful events and spectacles they created. Some historians have referred to it as ‘the long nineteenth century’ spanning 125 years between the French Revolution in 1789 through to the outbreak of the first world war in 1914. The dramatic changes and discoveries that took place created a legacy which has lived well into the twentieth century touching our lives today. The laundry list of nineteenth-century moments is very long, indeed. Among the highlights is the women’s reform movement, which improved educational opportunities for women and girls, and agitated changes to discriminatory property laws which did not allow women to own their own income or property.
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In collaboration with The Gender Insitute, ANU
Reading the Room
Hear Virginia Woolf’s classic feminist text A Room of One’s Own as never before: read aloud by 40 academics, students, alumni and leaders from The Australian National University community. Together, they engage with the question of how far we’ve come in achieving gender equality since the book was published almost 100 years ago.
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lara.nicholls@anu.edu.au