Claim OwnershipThe Other Half: The History of Women Through the Ages
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Women make up half of the world's population, and yet history books often consign them to the sidelines. They are dismissed as merely the wives of powerful men; babymakers and nothing more. Yet women have been the driving force behind history for millennia, from female Pharoahs, warrior princesses and pirates, to the revolutionaries who sought to topple the male-dominated political systems of their day. From host of the popular 'Queens of England Podcast', The Other Half tells the forgotten and ignored stories of the most powerful and influential women in history.
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We complete our anthology of World War 2 spies with two Russian émigrés recruited by the Abwehr to spy on Britain, but with very different motivations, in Lily Sergueiew and Vera Schalburg, and the shop girl from Stockwell, Violette Szabo, who held off the 2nd SS Panzer Division single-handedly.Support the show on PatreonFollow us on Facebook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We kick off a two-part anthology following legendary women who operated at the absolute extremes of the Second World War, from Baker Street’s chain-smoking chief of staff, Vera Atkins and cosmetics-toting guerrilla commander, Pearl Witherington, to the traitor Mathilde Carré, who traded eighty comrades for a fur coat.Support the show on PatreonFollow us on Facebook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Virginia heads south into the Haute Loire, where she will deal with some titanic egos, drive trains into gorges and liberate an entire department without any Allied back-up - before facing the far scarier prospect of peacetime.Support the show on PatreonFollow us on Facebook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1After escaping Spain and returning to Occupied France as an OSS operative, Virginia orchestrates a high-stakes campaign of sabotage and guerrilla warfare to pave the way for D-Day.Support the show on PatreonFollow us on Facebook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fresh from her greatest success, the honeymoon phase is officially over for Virginia Hall. Under attack from all sides and with her network penetrated, she is forced to risk everything on a treacherous winter escape.Support the show on PatreonFollow us on Facebook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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