Enclosure Acts

Ordinary women make just as thrilling history as great men

28 October 2023 9:00 am

Philippa Gregory investigates the lives of English women over 900 years – in sickness, health, business, war, prayer and prostitution

Secrets of Candleford: the real Flora Thompson

1 March 2014 9:00 am

Melanie McDonagh on Flora Thompson, whose revealing account of rural Oxfordshire life at the turn of the 19th century became a literary classic