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Iszi Lawrence heads to Fitzrovia, London, with writer, broadcaster and Victorian historian Kathryn Hughes to find out why the lack of public toilets meant women were so inconvenienced in the Victorian and Edwardian period. What lay behind the then-accepted notion that women shouldn't "go" in public? And in what ways has history paved the way for the current state of availability of women's public toilets? Helen Castor is joined by Flora Samuel, Professor of Architecture in the Built Environment at the University of Reading. First broadcast on Making History, 17 July 2018.