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What’sHerName puts the women back into world history. Hosts Dr. Katie Nelson and Olivia Meikle are professors-turned-podcasters (and sisters!) Weaving interviews with experts into vivid, nuanced biographies, What'sHerName women's history podcast tells the stories of fascinating women you’ve never he...
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THE MYSTERY The Ivory Lady
When a history-making Copper Age burial was unearthed in southern Spain in 2008, the world was stunned by the incredibly beautiful - and utterly unpre...
THE FOLKLORISTA Violeta Parra
Violeta Parra needs no introduction in Latin America: not only did she record the greatest album in Chilean history, she also collected two thousand f...
THE WITNESS Leonora Sansay
Leonora Sansay lived through the last chaotic years of the Haitian Revolution - but the book she wrote about it would tell an entirely unexpected stor...
THE TUGBOAT PIONEER Thea Foss
135 years ago, Norwegian immigrant Thea Foss lived in a ramshackle driftwood houseboat on the coast of Tacoma Washington. Kind, capable, and hard-work...
THE SHAMAN QUEEN Himiko
In the 3rd century, a mysterious queen ruled the Kingdom of Yamatai (modern-day Japan) with a wise and steady hand. Her reign lasted almost 70 years -...
THE PEACE WEAVER Eva Palmer Sikelianos
What if we could reopen a primordial spiritual portal, and summon peace on earth? For Eva Palmer Sikelianos in 1920s Greece, world peace wasn't a loft...
THE VAGABOND PRINCESS Gulbadan Begum
At the dawn of the Mughal Empire, a bold and brilliant Princess outlived three Emperors, and managed to create an adventurous, wildly unexpected life...
THE DOER Fulvia
The Roman Republic is collapsing and everything hangs in the balance. It's a political game of kill-or-be-killed, and Fulvia did not come to play.
THE CLAIRVOYANT QUEEN Seondeok
Queen Seondeok of Silla was revered for her wisdom, her compassion, and most importantly - her ability to use nature's signs to foretell the future! A...
THE SAUSAGE MAKER Johanna O'Brien
150 years ago, Irish farmer Johanna O'Brien created a secret recipe for black pudding. Today, her sausage is beloved by Michelin-star chefs across the...
THE FREE AND INDEPENDENT WOMAN Sayyida al Hurra
Nobody knows her real name. But this "Uncontested Pirate Queen of the Western Mediterranean" certainly earned her title: the Sayyida al Hurra, the Fre...
THE ANCHORITE Julian of Norwich
She lived through the worst century in human history: the Black Death, famine, war, death and despair. So it was all the more surprising when Julian o...
THE IDEALIST Mary Ware Dennett
Mary Ware Dennett was one of the most important and influential activist for women's rights, contraception, free speech and sex education in early 20t...
THE RELUCTANT EMPRESS Sisi
She prevented war and death on an immense scale, in acts that could earn the Nobel Peace Prize today. But History enshrined Sisi, Empress of Austria,...
THE STRONGWOMAN Katie Sandwina
When world-famous strongman Eugen Sandow finally met his match, nobody expected it to be at the hands of an 18 year old girl. But whether it was bendi...
THE WITCH OF WELLFLEET Maria Hallett
A pirate ship jammed with treasure. The worst storm to ever hit Cape Cod. The mythical shipwreck-- 280 years later, found. Everything in this swashbuc...
THE ADVENTURERS The Wilmot Sisters
How did two ordinary 18th century Anglo-Irish sisters end up gallivanting around the European continent, fraternizing with all the most radical and re...
CHRISTMAS IN MAINE Sarah Orne Jewett
Travel to snowy Victorian Maine in this year's Christmas Special, as Katie reads from the memoirs of Sarah Orne Jewett. An immensely famous and belove...
THE LEGEND Zainab Pasha
Zeynab Pasha was one of the most influential voices during several crises of 19th century Iranian history. From the Bread Crisis to the Tobacco Protes...
THE APOTHECARY Giulia Tofana
If you knew the recipe for an undetectable poison, would you use it? What about giving it to women with abusive husbands? Giulia Tofana's legendary po...
THE DRAGON FROM CHICAGO Sigrid Schultz
When Sigrid Schultz was offered a job as a reporter in Berlin, Germany in 1919, she had no idea how her life was about to change - or how her work wou...
THE SWORN SPINSTER Fanny Law
Whenever Teresa Lim asked about a striking woman she saw in old family photos, she was told 'That's Aunt Fanny; she was unfortunate.' So naturally, Te...
THE FILMMAKERS The McDonagh Sisters
Throughout the 1920s, three sisters dominated the Australian film scene. The phenomenal filmmaking team of Isabel, Phyllis, and Paulette McDonagh reig...
THE TANK COMMANDER Aleksandra Samusenko
Aleksandra Samusenko commanded a unit of Soviet tanks through some of the most brutal battles in human history. The Soviet Union never told her story....
THE FIRST LADY Pat Nixon
For decades, her remarkable achievements as United States First Lady have been overshadowed by her husband's big mistakes. Returning guest Heath Harda...
THE IRISH JOAN OF ARC Maud Gonne
She was one of the key figures of Irish Independence, known in her lifetime as The Irish Joan of Arc. But somehow, history only remembers her as the w...
THE INDOMITABLE SPIRIT Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi was one of the most famed and respected painters in 17th century Europe, but after she died, her story - and many of her works -...
BONUS: A Night of Celebration Live
What'sHerName goes live!
To launch our new book, What's Her Name, A History of the World in 80 Lost Women, former episode guests convene in Lon...
THE ABOLITIONIST Ellen Garrison
The story goes that the American Civil Rights movement started when Rosa Parks refused to leave her bus seat in 1955. But 89 years before that, Ellen...
THE BYZANTINE Irene of Athens
From arriving at the port of Constantinople as a teenage bride to the heir to the Byzantine Throne, to exiling - and blinding - her own son, Constanti...
THE BUTTERFLY IN THE SUN Mata Hari
A charming Indonesian orphan danced her way to fame and fortune... except literally everything about Mata Hari was a lie. She said she wanted to live...
THE COUNTERFEIT COUNTESS Janina Mehlberg
When Jewish mathematician Pepi Mehlberg was offered a new identity as Countess Janina Suchodolska in Nazi-occupied Poland, she took that chance and us...
THE VOYAGER Hannah Masury Howe
In 1867, a ship bound for California with 400 Chinese passengers signaled distress as it drifted in the Pacific Ocean. The ship's captain was a woman,...
THE SOLID CITIZEN Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins, first female cabinet secretary in US history, was the mind (and the will) behind nearly every landmark policy of the Roosevelt admini...
THE EQUESTRIAN Anna Sewell
"This was one woman with a very little life, who made the most enormous difference." Celia Brayfield shares with Katie the story of Anna Sewell who, o...
THE GUNG-HO ORIGINAL Helen Foster Snow
In 1931, a young American aspiring writer set off for what she thought would be a one-year adventure in China. Hoping to gain life experience so she c...
CHRISTMAS IN SWEDEN Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf poetically recorded old Norse fairytales and profoundly influenced Swedish identity. Her work was so brilliant, she was the first woman...
THE WILD CHILD Alice Roosevelt
When Alice Roosevelt's dad became President of the United States, her family became the center of attention for the entire country (and the world) - a...
THE BOSTON BRAHMIN Ethel Gibson Allen
Come with us to peak Gilded Age America! We'll watch a charmingly unconventional love story unfold, cure yellow fever, stare at some incredible wallpa...
THE BLOOD COUNTESS Elizabeth Báthory
Countess Elizabeth Báthory was a monster - a sadistic, murderous, vampire-witch who, in her castle in Hungary in the early 1600s, tortured and murdere...