Send us a text Welcome back to Speaking of Her. For our Spooky Season Finale, Lucy leads us into one of the most haunting corners of women’s history — where industrial progress, poverty, and silence collided in the shadows of Victorian London. We’re telling the story of the matchstick girls — the young women who worked long hours in match factories, dipping sticks into white phosphorus that slowly poisoned them from the inside out. What followed was a terrifying and agonizing condition called...
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Send us a text Welcome back to Speaking of Her. For our Spooky Season Finale, Lucy leads us into one of the most haunting corners of women’s history — where industrial progress, poverty, and silence collided in the shadows of Victorian London. We’re telling the story of the matchstick girls — the young women who worked long hours in match factories, dipping sticks into white phosphorus that slowly poisoned them from the inside out. What followed was a terrifying and agonizing condition called...
Cleopatra I Syra: Egypt’s Queen whose story is far less told
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Cleopatra I Syra: Egypt’s Queen whose story is far less told
Send us a text Welcome back to Speaking of Her. This week, we're are stepping into the ancient world to uncover the story of Cleopatra I Syra — the first of the Cleopatras, and a queen whose quiet strength helped shape Egypt at a critical turning point. Unlike her more famous descendant Cleopatra VII, Cleopatra I’s power was forged not through spectacle but through diplomacy, strategy, and resilience. In this episode, we explore her remarkable story: Her origins as a Seleucid Princess, and ho...
Speaking of her
Send us a text Welcome back to Speaking of Her. For our Spooky Season Finale, Lucy leads us into one of the most haunting corners of women’s history — where industrial progress, poverty, and silence collided in the shadows of Victorian London. We’re telling the story of the matchstick girls — the young women who worked long hours in match factories, dipping sticks into white phosphorus that slowly poisoned them from the inside out. What followed was a terrifying and agonizing condition called...
