Welcome to the Woman's History Timeline. Click on a decade above to open a list of key events. Click on a key event to find out more about what happened. Click on LISTEN icons to hear interviews and special archive content about the period.
Victorian Times: for background on women's history during the Victorian era visit BBC Women's History and you can test your knowledge with the women's rights game.
Listen again to the Balloon debate that launched the Woman's Hour Time line and hear why the availability of contraception won the title of most influental event to impact on the lives of women.
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This photograph was taken in October 1968, on a wet Sunday in Blackpool! We had gone on a coach trip with the family (there was little else to do on a Sunday in the midlands!) We were both 19 at the time. We now live a few hundred miles apart, but have remained close friends for over 38 years! The only thing to have changed in that time is the length of our hemlines and our hair colour. My then black hair is now coloured blonde in a vain attempt to hide all grey, and Lyns (blonde in pic) is now dark brown.
