Life Lessons From Historical Women

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

History Hit

Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

When women's stories aren't being flat-out ignored from the history books, they can often be sidelined.

Well not here! Joining Kate today is the comedian and author of Life Lessons from Historical Women, Eleanor Morton, to share some of her favourite stories of inspirational women through history and the lessons they have taught her.

What would it have taken to make a daring escape from colonial Australia? And how did working class women in Victorian London create collective power?

This episode was edited by Tom Delargy. The producer was Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.

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0:08.0	Carlin, the spy who sold peace to the IRA. When Carlin quit the British Army to return to Northern Ireland
0:15.9	during the Troubles he received an unusual job offer to spy on his own
0:20.8	community. He would quickly find himself deep within the Irish
0:25.3	Republican movement having to choose between preserving his cover or his
0:29.7	conscience. For 30 years, paramilitary groups from both sides murdered, maimed and bombed,
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