A national narrative history, with each episode built around the life of an individual woman.

This is the half of history that many accounts leave out: teachers and traders, artists and entertainers, philanthropists and politicians, soldiers and scientists, mothers, maids and martyrs.

They built the country we have today, yet when we wander around our cities, towns and villages, they seldom appear on the plinths and the plaques.

These women very nearly invisible - although lots of very ordinary men - from unexceptional to outright disasters - find their names up in lights..

This podcast aims to do a little to balance that, aided by the huge advances in women's history in academia in recent decades. Yet rarely do those stories escape the pages of journals and monographs.

There are no queens covered, and only a few aristocrats. This is, so far as is possible, a history of the women of England across the social scale.

Starting in Tudor times, although hoping to go back to "the beginning" one day.

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