Jane Robinson: Blue Stockings

This is the incredible story of the fight for female education in Britain. In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs would wither and die. When the Cambridge Senate held a vote on whether women students should be allowed official membership of the university, there was a full-scale riot. Despite the prejudice and the terrible sacrifices they faced, women from all backgrounds persevered and paved the way for the generations who have followed them since.