Her Moment In History HMIH

Today we take a trip to France. Discussing the Surrealist writer and photographer Claude Cahun and the chaotic life of opera singer Julie d'Aubigny better known as La Maupin. Enjoy!

Happy Mother's Day to all those spectacular mums out there!! We hope your having a fantastic day, and we hope to make it even better with learning about these inspiring mothers from past and present! With Azucena Villaflor and the other Mother's of the Plazo de Mayo who fought tirelessly for their lost children and with Jacinda Ardern, a leader who continues to fight for a better New Zealand all while raising her daughter. So come join us, listen in and put your feet up and let's celebrate all things maternal!! With our usual recommendations!! Tune in!

Let us pick your brain with a question? What do you know about psychologists Anna Freud and Mary Ainsworth? How about their work surrounding child development and attachment? Well, would you like to know even more!? Of course you would! So lie back on that leather sofa and listen to us tell you all about them and their impressive work!

G'day listeners! Taking a trip around the world to greet our third highest group of listeners in Australia!! With the Queen of the Underworld Kate Leigh and her crime rival, the infamous Tilly Devine. And, writer and early feminist Miles Franklin! So grab your sunscreen, and sunhat and we'll have a bloody beauty arvo with these sheilas! With usual recommendations and some fantastic biographies!

We're going travelling again this episode, in a covid friendly way! This time we're off to Edinburgh and Edinburgh University. With Sophia Jex Blake, a member of the Edinburgh Seven who fought for her right to study medicine at University. And Flora MacDonald, the woman who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape the English! With our usual recs and usual ramblings!! Enjoy!

Happy Halloween Listeners!! This episode we're looking at the lesser famous relations of some pretty famous names! With Ellen Key and her translator Mamah Borthwick lover of Frank Lloyd Wright, and Rosemary Kennedy of the famous Kennedy family. And for the spooky season these stories deal with a family curse, a bloody ending straight from a slasher film and some pretty spooky recs. So join us and get settled in for some haunting history!