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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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Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
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
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Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
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
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Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
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
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Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
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.
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Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
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
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Sunday May 15, 2022
Sunday May 15, 2022
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
Friday Apr 15, 2022
Friday Apr 15, 2022
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
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
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)
Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
Tuesday Feb 15, 2022
In this episode, Emma Duval and I dive into the concept of childfree women in history, and how women without children push boundaries and help us redefine womanhood.
You can find Emma Duval on Instagram @millennialemma
Recommended Reading:
Single women in the European Past Edited by Judith M. Bennett and Amy M. Froide
A History of Celibacy by Elizabeth Abbott
How to be Childless by Rachel Chrasthil
Marie Marvingt, Fiancee of Danger: First Female Bomber Pilot, World-Class Athlete and
Inventor of the Air Ambulance by Book by Rosalie Maggio
Recommended Viewing:
Ammonite
Dickinson
The Girl King
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
In this episode, Alycia from Civics & Coffee and I jump into a conversation about Jane Franklin and Abigail Adams, two women whose lives both reflect the women of their generation and defy the roles they were expected to fill.
Recommended Reading / Listening:
Book of Ages by Jill Lepore
Abigail Adams, a Life by Woody Holton
Civics & Coffee Podcast – Miss Independent: Abigail Adams