Remarkable women through history

History Extra podcast

Immediate Media

History

4.3 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Max Adams, author of Unquiet Women, explores the lives of some remarkable women from history whose stories have been largely forgotten. He also overturns the idea that women of this period were either queens, nuns or invisible – and explains why women’s history narratives are easy to find, if only you look in the right places Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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