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Her Half of History

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Women"s history doesn"t have be boring or depressing. I tell the stories of extraordinary women in history, including queens, slaves, spies, scientists, artists, wives, mothers, and more. But most women didn"t leave us enough material for a biography, so I also tell you what it was like to be an ordinary woman, including what they wore, how they did housework, how they worked, and how they played. In short, what were the women doing all that time while men were writing the standard history books

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8.2 Aphra Behn: A Royalist Spy

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2022/09/01

Aphra Behn is most famous as the first woman to support herself as a writer in English, but before she launched her literary career, she had a more secretive one. This episode is the story of her career as a spy.See the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for pictures, sources, and a transcript. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfaction.Join Into History for a

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8.1 Spies in the Pre-Modern World

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2022/08/25

Espionage has been called the world's second oldest profession, and women were in the thick of it from the very beginning. Unfortunately, a spy's default mode is to hide her tracks, which means that in the ancient and medieval world I found hint after tantalizing hint, but very few fully-fleshed histories of female spies. So today's episode is a round up of those hints, along with a brief history of the profession itself.See a transcript and pictures and sources at the website

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7.11 The 20th Century Housewife and Beyond

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2022/07/14

Industrialization had already transformed the housewife's life, and it was not about to stop. Gas, electricity, running water, cars, ready-made clothes revolutionized everything all over again in the 20th century. And yet the hours women spent on household tasks did not budge for most of the century for a variety of reasons. I also touch on what it meant to be a housewife in communist countries like East Germany, Hungary, and China. But basically, no matter where you were, running a household boiled

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7.10 Industrialization Hits the Housewife

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2022/07/07

Industrialization came in with a bang, and the housewife's life would never be the same again, but unfortunately, that does not mean her life got any easier. This episode covers what happened to housewives in the US and western Europe as industrialization got rolling in the 18th century and carried on through the 19th. Vist the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, pictures, sources, and more. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the

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7.9 The Pre-Industrial Housewife

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2022/06/30

Housewives are practically invisible in the historical record, so the general impression is that not much changed for them between the dawn of civilization and industrialization. That is almost certainly not true, and this episode is a discussion of what little we know about being a housewife in the pre-industrial era.See the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, sources, and pictures. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my

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7.8 Some Like It Cold: A History of Your Fridge

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2022/06/23

Heating things up has been under humanity's control for millennia. But keeping things cool is a modern miracle, and this episode shows how housewives did (or mostly didn't) manage it.See the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, pictures, and sources. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfaction.Join Into History for a community of ad-free history

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7.7 Some Like It Hot: A History of Cooking

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2022/06/16

It is ridiculous to try to cover the history of cooking in one episode, but it would be equally ridiculous to ignore it in a series on housewives and housework, so here is the grand overview on how your dinner got cooked, from fire roasting all the way to the microwave.See the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, pictures, and sources. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a

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7.6 Waste Not: A History of Your Trash

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2022/06/09

Some household chores are more or less a thing of the past, but taking out the trash is a task that has grown over time. It's also transformed beyond all recognition. This episode discusses what women of the past had in their trash and what they did with it.See the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, sources, and pictures. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling

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7.5 To Market, To Market: A History of Shopping

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2022/06/02

How many shopping trips does it take to keep the household running? And is it a man's job or a woman's? And what was it like when you got to the shop? Some of the answers are here in this episode.Check out the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for a transcript, pictures, and more details. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfaction.Join Into History for a

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7.4 Next to Godliness: A History of Housecleaning

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2022/05/26

Women have done an enormous amount of cleaning over the millennia, but precious few bothered to write down what that meant. The daily grind of housewives is largely hidden from history, but this episode covers some of what we do know about spring cleaning, whitewashing, carpet beating, and dishwashing, plus a few tidbits about the invention of the vacuum and the dishwasher.See the website for a full transcript, sources, and pictures. herhalfofhistory.com Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com)

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7.3 Let There Be Light: A History of Flipping the Switch

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2022/05/19

Keeping out the night was a substantial, and sometimes insurmountable task for housewives of the past. This episode talks about the hazy origins of artificial light through the centuries to a time when lighting your house is so easy you probably don't even think of it as housework. See pictures, sources, and a full transcript on the website at herhalfof history.com Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes,

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7.2 Stitch in Time: A History of Clothing the Family

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2022/05/12

The drama of housewifery continues with the most time-consuming task there is: spinning, weaving, and sewing. There are four major natural fibers, and they are flax, cotton, wool, and silk. Each of the great civilizations, plus most of the not-so-great ones, had at least one of the those to work with, and women were (usually) responsible) for getting the fiber from plant (or animal) to fashion statement. Here's how the did (and also didn't) get it done.See a transcript and pictures on the website:

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7.1 Wash on Monday: A History of Your Laundry

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2022/05/05

Laundry has been on the household chore list ever since people first learned to spin plant and animal fibers into fabric. This episode traces its history from the days when a rinse in the stream was all you could do, to Romans pounding it with their feet, to Victorian women hauling and boiling 400 pounds of water for it. Until the 20th century when the automatic washer and dryer miraculuously relieved some (but not all) women of what one advice writer called the "most trying department of

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6.12 Wrapping Up the Ground-Breaking Novelists

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2022/04/07

Since I began this series with a discussion of how we got to the point where women could write novels at all, I thought it would be fitting to wind it down with a discussion of how far we've come since Murasaki Shikibu and the world's first (great) novel. I'll also give you an explanation of how I chose the ones I chose and a long list of the women I didn't cover, in case you're in need of your next great read. And really, who isn't?See the website for sources and a transcript. Visit the website

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6.11 Zora Neale Hurston Celebrates Her Heritage

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2022/03/31

African-American women wrote novels in the 19th century, but Zora Neale Hurston brought the art to a whole new level in the 20th.See the website for sources and pictures. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfaction.Join Into History for a community of ad-free history podcasts plus bonus content. Follow me on Twitter as @her_half. Or on Facebook or Instagram

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6.10 Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime (Part 2)

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2022/03/24

Agatha's mysterious disappearance is solved (sort of) and she goes on to become the bestselling novelist in history. Plus, a bit about why she is still so appealing, even a full century after her first books were written, and despite some heavy criticism from some quarters.See the website for sources and images. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of

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6.9 Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime (Part 1)

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2022/03/17

Agatha Christie is the bestselling novelist of all time. This episode takes her from an idyllic childhood, through multiple proposals, into a world war, out through her first several books, and into her own mysterious disappearance in 1926.See the website for sources and a transcript. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfaction.Join Into History for a

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6.8 Selma Lagerlöf Wins the Nobel

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2022/03/10

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been given 118 times. Selma Lagerlöf was the first woman to win it. Listen to hear the story of the prize and the woman.Sources and pictures are available on the website. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfaction.Join Into History for a community of ad-free history podcasts plus bonus content. Follow me on Twitter as

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6.7 Frances Hodgson Burnett Fights for Copyright

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2022/03/03

Back in the day, authors lost control of their work the instant it was published (and sometimes before). Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy, was an enormously successful author, and she insisted her stories belonged to her.See more details and sources on the website. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of self-satisfaction.Join

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6.6 Harriet Beecher Stowe Starts a War

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2022/02/24

Not many novels get more attention in History class than they do in English class, but Uncle Tom's Cabin is the exception. This episode tells the story of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Yankee white woman who fired up the North in the cause of emancipation.See sources, details, pictures, and a transcript on the website. Visit the website (herhalfofhistory.com) for sources, transcripts, and pictures.Support the show on my Patreon page for bonus episodes, polls, and a general feeling of

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