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Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper

Raising the Dead - Behind the Scenes of Bad Women

Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper

Pushkin Industries

History, True Crime

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The rich and famous leave many traces in the historical records, but how can you reconstruct the lives of ordinary people who lived decades and decades ago?

That was the challenge facing the team behind the Bad Women podcast. Hosts Hallie Rubenhold and Alice Fiennes sit down with genealogist Kate Healy to discuss the detective work involved in scouring the archives for the scraps of information which - when gathered together - created a richer picture of the women chronicled in seasons one and two.

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0:00.0

Malcolm Gladwell here. This season on revisionist history we're going to the

0:05.0

heart of America's gun violence crisis. Six episodes. Some weird, some whimsical,

0:11.0

some heartbreaking, some angry. Because so much of what we believe about guns and

0:16.0

assault rifles and mass shootings is actually wrong. We're gonna talk about TV

0:20.7

westerns about a crime in a little town in rural Alabama about the nuttiness of

0:24.6

the Supreme Court but the world of trauma surgeons and wonder what would have

0:28.3

happened had Bobby Kennedy been shot today and not 50 years ago. Join me and

0:34.2

the revisionist history team for our six-part chaotic ride to America's gun

0:38.9

problem. It's our biggest series ever and one you won't want to miss. The

0:45.1

series premieres on August 31st. You can binge listen to all six episodes

0:50.0

early and add free by subscribing to Pushkin Plus on Apple Podcasts or by

0:55.3

visiting pushkin.fm slash plus or you can listen to the episodes weekly in the

1:02.1

revisionist history podcast feed.

1:11.2

Pushkin. Sometimes retrieving forgotten lives from the recesses of history feels

1:20.6

like magic. A kind of alchemy like raising the dead. Something that Hallie and I

1:26.7

often get asked making podcasts or in Hallie's case writing books about

1:31.0

social history is how do you find all of this information out? Where do you

1:35.6

look? How do you know where to start? After spending nearly 30 years training and

1:41.7

working as a historian some of what happens in the course of researching a

1:45.6

subject has, for me, started to feel instinctive. But there's a method to all of

1:50.9

this, a logical way of putting the pieces together and of using sources to

1:55.8

revive lost stories. Researchers and historians are fundamentally detectives.

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