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...
Harriet Boyd Hawes - Pioneer, Nurse, and Excavator of Ancient Worlds
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Harriet Boyd Hawes - Pioneer, Nurse, and Excavator of Ancient Worlds
Send us a text Welcome back to Speaking of Her. This week, it's Jess' turn to tell the story, and we're talking about Harriet Boyd Hawes — a trailblazing archaeologist, nurse, and lecturer whose determination broke through the barriers of her time. At the turn of the 20th century, archaeology was a field dominated by men — but Harriet refused to be sidelined. Defying societal expectations, she embarked on daring expeditions, unearthed groundbreaking discoveries in Crete, and became one of the...
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...
