S2, EP3 Women at War: Dr Patricia Fara (1918)
Travels Through Time
English - September 24, 2019 06:29 - 43 minutes - 33 MB - ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsHistory Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Our latest episode of Travels Through Time explores a little-studied but revolutionary group of women at the heart of Dr Patricia Fara’s latest book, A Lab of One’s Own.
Patricia takes us back to 1918 where we find them working with great skill, energy and success, against the backdrop of one of the most brutal wars in world history.
They were aircraft designers, surgeons, chemical researchers, military commanders and surveillance operatives. Their work contributed significantly to the British war effort.
Patricia is a Fellow of Clare College Cambridge, a prize-winning author and has recently served as President for the British Society for the History of Science.
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Scene One: 10th Jan 1918, House of Lords. The suffragist Ray Strachey watches them approve the 1918 Representation of the People Act
Scene Two: 26 March. Marie Stopes’s Married Love is published and she meets her future husband after he returns from the War with a broken ankle
Scene Three: 1 November, Vranje, Serbia. Dr Isabel Emslie takes over a military hospital. She stays there long after the Armistice
Memento: Dr Isabel Emslie’s Diary
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Presenter: Peter Moore
Guest: Dr Patricia Fara
Producers: Maria Nolan & John Hillman
Editorial: Artemis Irvine
Titles: Jon O.
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