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Women's History Stories

2023-11-11

A Park Lane killing: Delving into historical fiction

What is historical fiction? How does it help us understand history? Lena Augustinson and Naomi Clifford talk about historical fiction and why Naomi has chosen this genre for her latest work: the story of the death of Madame Riel in 1872 in the kitchen of a house in Park Lane, Mayfair, at the hands of her domestic cook, Marguerite Diblanc. They discuss the work of Dickens, Hilary Mantel, Sarah Waters and others. You can learn more about Naomi Clifford’s work on this story at Substack (free subscription). Sign up to Naomi’s Substack newsletter

39 min
2022-12-07

Susanna Meredith, the convict laundry and washing for love

Lena Augustinson talks to Naomi Clifford about her research into the work of Mrs Meredith, a pioneer in the rehabilitation of women convicts, and about how criminal women were viewed in the 19th century. Listen to the episode on trailblazing maternity doctor Annie McCall, who is mentioned in this podcast about Mrs Meredith. You can read about the life of Mrs Meredith in Out of the Shadows: Essays on 18th and 19th Century Women, published by Caret Press.

28 min
2022-08-20

Louise Michel: A Political Firebrand Visits London

Lena Augustinson talks to Naomi Clifford about the affection Louise Michel, a veteran of the Paris Commune, held for London, and the significance of her tour of Lambeth Workhouse at the invitation of one of the Poor Law Guardians. Louise Michel, photographed by Eugène Appert in Chantiers Prison, Versailles in 1871. Courtesy Musées Carnavalet, Paris Louise Michel, feminist, anarchist, poet, ex-convict, playwright and journalist, survived the bloody end of the 1871 Paris Commune and subsequent exile to New Caledonia. She loved London and visited several times. But why was she invited in 1883 to give her opinion on the Lambeth Workhouse? Featured image: ‘La Barricade’, from Les Communeux, 1871: Types, caractères, costumes (1880), illustrated by Bertall (1820-1882). Paris: E. Plon (Paris). Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie, 4-OA-128 (D). Women of the Commune were depicted as angry, ugly, working-class arsonists who deliberately destroyed Paris with fire at the fall of the Commune

35 min
2022-07-18

June Spencer: A Volunteer Ambulance Driver in Wartime Chelsea

Fenella Gatehouse tells Lena Augustinson and Naomi Clifford about her mother June Spencer, a driver for the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service in Chelsea during the Second World War and the subject of Naomi’s book Under Fire. June Spencer by Tom Dugdale (1942). © June Buchanan estate. June Spencer was a debutante, dressmaker and artist with a vibrant and busy social life. She attended many serious bomb incidents. Her diaries, which contains some vivid descriptions of the destruction, is also a valuable source of information about daily life in the Blitz. June was extremely well-connected, and knew novelists Patrick O’Brian and Mary Wesley, poet, sailor and MP A.P. Herbert, artists Tom Dugdale and Augustus John. She lived at 97 Lindsey House on Cheyne Walk, then owned by Richard Stewart-Jones, the antiquarian who was the driving force behind the reconstruction of Chelsea Old Church after it was destroyed by bombing in April 1941. London Auxiliary Ambulance Service crew at Station 22 in Danvers Street, Chelsea. By kind permission of the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Archive. June Spencer’s wartime diary is the subject of Naomi’s latest book Under Fire, published by Caret Press, available to order through bookshops and from Amazon. Ebooks and Kindle are also available.

33 min
2022-05-30

A Respectable Living in South London

Local historian Tracey Gregory is in conversation with Lena Augustinson and Naomi Clifford about the options open to women earning their own living in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in south London. Loughborough Hotel and adjacent shops. Courtesy of Tracey Gregory Tracey Gregory is the driving force behind Loughborough Road Histories, a collection of microhistories of the shops, pubs and people who have lived and worked in a small complex of streets near Brixton in London SW9 over the past 180 years. The Laundry Shop, Walter Sickert (1885). Photographed at ‘Sickert’, Tate Britain 2022. Meet Emma Armstrong, who ran a laundry service, Emma Jenkins, stationer, and Eliza Dale, bootshop manager, numerous boarding-house keepers, music teachers and artists, and Nellie Roberts, orchid painter, who featured in another of our episodes. Home page featured image: Wellcome Images – Sunlight: in sympathy (Sunlight Soap is in sympathy with the joys of women). Lever Brothers Ltd. Lever Brothers Ltd. Date[between 1890 and 1899?]

35 min
2020-02-20

Annie McCall – Maternity Trailblazer

Naomi Clifford and Lena Augustinson look at the work of Dr Annie McCall, who was dedicated to improving the care of women and their babies. Including an interview with Susan Bewley, emeritus professor of obstetrics at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, who talks about this remarkable woman and her achievements. “Nothing but the best was good enough for the women who came to her for help and guidance, and she spared neither herself nor those who worked with her in her insistence on SERVICE as the unvarying watchword.” Born 23 September 1859 at Whalley Range, Manchester, Annie McCall was the middle of five children. Annie’s father died of TB when she was four and a younger brother had spinal TB. Her mother wanted her children to have an extended education, and moved with all them to Göttingen in Germany, leaving her three daughters there. When Annie returned to England she went to Cheltenham Ladies College, after which she started her medical education, beginning in Paris, followed by four years at the London School of Medicine and further training in Dublin and Switzerland. McCall immediately entered the world of community medicine working with the poor in south London. She started a school of midwifery in her home and in 1889 set up the Clapham Maternity Hospital nearby. She enforced the highest standards of hygiene and medical care which resulted in very low maternity death rates among women. Only women staff and students were admitted, to enable women to obtain training. Dr McCall retired from the hospital in 1941. The centre was used as an NHS maternity hospital until 1970. Images: A. McCall by Deneulain. Wellcome Collection.

27 min

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