Broadly Underestimated

Woman In Time
Broadly Underestimated

Broadly Underestimated is the podcast dedicated to understanding the underestimated aspects of our lives. Every object, institution, historical event – even the most mundane – has its own revolutionary story. And it’s often the underestimated women behind those stories that have shaped life as we know it today.

  1. 12/06/2022

    Snow Widows 2: The Women Who Created Legends

    In this episode, we’ll continue our conversation with Snow Widows author Katherine MacInnis. Where we left off in the previous episode, three men from the infamous Robert Scott and Arctic Expedition were lying dead in their tent, and two men were missing.In part 2, we'll talk about disappearances, when you're truly the last one in the world to know something, and creating legends.   Recommended Reading: Snow Widows by Katherine MacInnes   Follow Broadly Underestimated: Instagram @womanintime Facebook @ Woman In Time Twitter @womanintime1 www.womanintime.com

    33 min

  2. 11/15/2022

    Snow Widows 1: The Women Behind the Race to the South Pole

    The story of the Robert Scott Expedition is one of the most well-documented exploration stories out there, but there's this entire other side of the story that's never been told - until a book by the name of Snow Widows was published. In today’s episode we’ll sit down with author Katherine MacInnes to talk about this incredible untold story.   Recommended Reading: Snow Widows by Katherine MacInnes   Follow Broadly Underestimated: Instagram @womanintime Facebook @ Woman In Time Twitter @womanintime1 www.womanintime.com

    47 min

  3. 11/08/2022

    The Stacks: Four Things You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials

    In this Salem Witch Trials follow-up episode, I want to chat about a few more fun – but really in this case not so fun - facts about the Salem Witch Trials that I couldn’t include in the previous episode, and also about a few recommendations for books that will tell you more about these and other fascinating aspects of the trials. So buckle up for this choose your own adventure book chat!   Recommended Books: I, Tituba by Maryse Conde The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent The Witches by Stacy Schiff A Season With the Witch by J.W. Ocker   Follow Broadly Underestimated: Instagram @womanintime Facebook @ Woman in Time Twitter @WomaninTime1 www.womanintime.com

    14 min

  4. 10/26/2022

    Salem Witch Trials - Apologies, Cover-ups, and the Queen of Hell

    In this episode, we're going to talk about something that comes up every single October, and that is the Salem witch trials. But we're going to talk about this from a very specific angle. And hopefully it’s an angle from which you’ve not really looked at the trials before. So today we'll talk about an apology, a cover up and the so-called queen of hell. Follow the show on Social Media: Instagram: @womanintime Facebook: @Woman In Time Twitter: @womanintime1

    23 min

  5. 06/15/2022

    Asylums 3: Nellie Bly, Undercover Whistleblower

    In 1887, Nellie Bly went undercover at Blackwell’s Asylum to expose its use as a holding pen for different or defiant women, and to reveal the horrors inside.   Recommended Reading: Ten Days in a Mad House by Nellie Bly   You can support Broadly Underestimated through Buy Me a Coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/womanintime or under the support tab at www.womanintime.com   Follow the show on Social Media: Instagram: @womanintime Facebook: @Woman In Time Twitter: @womanintime1

    31 min

  6. 05/15/2022

    Asylums 2: Elizabeth Packard & the Fight for Married Women’s Rights

    Elizabeth Packard has just come out of the fight of her life. She’d spent three years locked in an asylum that she had no power to get out of. Her spiteful husband had committed her and used every legal tool at his disposal to silence her powerful voice. And now, he had taken her children from her.   Elizabeth Packard was a fighter. And there was no way she was going to lay down for this fight for her children and for the rights of married women across the United States.   Recommended Reading: The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore The Great Drama by Elizabeth Packard Marital Power Exemplified by Elizabeth Packard

    22 min

  7. 04/15/2022

    Asylums 1: Elizabeth Packard and the Weaponization of Women’s Mental Health

    Soon after waking up one morning in 1860, Elizabeth Packard, a 40-year-old mother of six, was ambushed by two doctors who broke into her room. Her husband Theophilus had been threatening to commit her to an asylum for quite a while. And now he was finally making good on his promise.   Recommended Reading: The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore

    37 min

  8. 03/15/2022

    Mary Anning and the Fossil that Changed the World

    In 1823, a young woman named Mary Anning discovered a fossil that would forever change the way we view the earth. Recommended Reading / Viewing: The Fossil Hunter by Shelley Emling Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier Ammonite (2020)

    22 min
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Broadly Underestimated is the podcast dedicated to understanding the underestimated aspects of our lives. Every object, institution, historical event – even the most mundane – has its own revolutionary story. And it’s often the underestimated women behind those stories that have shaped life as we know it today.

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  • Creator
    Woman In Time
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    23
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2021 All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Broadly Underestimated

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