What'sHerName

19/08/2024

If you are in the UK or AUSTRALIA, our audiobook is available now! Read by my all-time favorite reader, CAROLINE LENNON!

I hope you L💛VE it!

05/08/2024

Olivia is absolutely thrilled to be joining fan-fave What'sHerName guest Pamela Toler this Tuesday, Aug 6th, for the virtual launch of her BRILLIANT new book *The Dragon From Chicago*!

Join us for fun & fascinating Women's History chat, readings from both our books & a little silliness. RSVP now at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfFVQ66VedplACAfksAYh9ib5QRMvIkU3ztDKM5JDubCB-XVw/viewform to get your zoom invite access code!

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30/07/2024

Have you heard THE IRISH JOAN OF ARC yet? Here’s Maud Gonne, far right, on relief duty in Dublin, 4 July 1922. This lady never stopped trying to steer Ireland toward Liberty.

Check out .author ‘s kickstarter campaign to get a copy of her new book and help get a statue of Maud Gonne in Dublin!

📷: National Library of Ireland

24/07/2024

New episode alert! She was one of the key figures of Irish Independence, known in her lifetime as THE IRISH JOAN OF ARC.

But somehow, history only remembers her as the woman who wouldn’t marry WB Yeats. More recently, a BBC headline called her “Ireland’s heroine who had s*x in her baby’s tomb.”

Both those things are true, but… her real story is even more bonkers – and of course, so much more amazing.

Join us with .author on our new episode THE IRISH JOAN OF ARC wherever you get your podcasts!

20/07/2024

Olivia nailed the headwear while presenting our Stinky History of Toilets at a library event today! 💩

18/07/2024

Have you listened to THE INDOMITABLE SPIRIT yet? Let’s compare versions of Judith and Holofernes.

1: Gentileschi’s, 1612
2: Gentileschi’s, 1620
3. Caravaggio’s, 1598

13/07/2024

New episode alert! Artemisia Gentileschi was one of the most famed and respected painters in 17th-century Europe, but after she died, her story – and many of her works – were lost. Now award-winning artist Lindsay Huss helps us uncover her incredible life.

Listen to THE INDOMITABLE SPIRIT wherever you get your podcasts!

18/06/2024

The childhood home of THE ABOLITIONIST Ellen Garrison in Concord MA, and some of the artifacts in the museum.

Her story is a great one to listen to on Juneteenth!

08/06/2024

What’sHerName England Tour in the footsteps of ancient ancestors in Wiltshire 💫

06/06/2024

04/06/2024

The ancient holy spring of goddess Sulis Minerva! Been dreaming of going in here for years (it’s super limited access). Today was such fun. Don’t want to leave Bath tomorrow!

03/06/2024

And we’re off! Lost Women of England adventurers from all over have convened in Bath and we’re having a wondrous time!

02/06/2024

Had the best time meeting Cerys on today to talk Lost Women! Our book comes out in the UK June 6, and we hope you love it. 🙏🏼 Thank you for helping us shine a light on history’s forgotten women!

17/05/2024

New episode LIVE NOW! Why does Byzantium have all the best icons? Why were their Emperors all *so obsessed* with blinding each other? And how did an inoffensive Old Folks Home take down the empire's first Empress?

Those and other extremely pressing questions answered, in our deep-dive into that endlessly enigmatic Empress of the Byzantines, Irene of Athens!

www.whatshernamepodcast.com/irene-of-athens

22/04/2024

In 2020 we ran our first Mother's Day special, THE ANCESTORS, sharing amazing stories from some of our listeners' own family histories https://whatshernamepodcast.com/mothers-day-special From an epic 4000 mile trek on camelback from Uzbekistan to Jerusalem, to reckoning with the legacy of slavery in your own family tree, from saving your babies from the firebombing of an entire Japanese city, to a world famous rattlesnake farm *and cannery* in midcentury Florida - these "ordinary women's" stories were anything but ordinary!

We know there's so many more amazing stories out there - and we want to hear 'em! Got some incredible women in your family archives whose stories you'd like to share? Tell us all about them in the comments - we can't get enough! ♥️

13/04/2024

The narrator in ‘s new swashbuckling adventure was inspired by THE VOYAGER Hannah Masury Howe. This book is a page turner with a marvelous twist— I loved it! The audiobook is brilliantly narrated by

06/04/2024

There are no known images of Hannah Masury Howe, but her husband Edward sat for a portrait before his untimely demise in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. From our episode THE VOYAGER 🌊
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03/04/2024

Have you ever had an object become your best clue for an ancestor’s entire existence? Here is the punch bowl that launched into the story of THE VOYAGER Hannah Masury Howe.

27/03/2024

New episode LIVE NOW! wp.me/p8WwwA-2n8 In 1867, a ship bound for California with 400 Chinese passengers signalled distress as it drifted in the Pacific Ocean. The ship’s captain was a woman, and her mutinous crew had refused to sail the ship even though they were running out of water. How did Captain Hannah Masury Howe come to be in such a predicament - and how could she possibly save herself and the ship?

Join us for this real-life high seas adventure with NYT Bestselling novelist Katherine Howe, author of "A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself."

26/03/2024

A collection of images from THE SOLID CITIZEN Frances Perkins’ time as Secretary of Labor. Photo 1 is a group of Cabinet Secretaries’ wives…and Frances Perkins.

20/03/2024

Hundreds of years ago, Caroline Herschel lived a real-life Cinderella story. Except instead of marrying a handsome prince, she became a world-renowned astronomer! Her brutal childhood was one of servitude, suffering and loneliness. Childhood diseases piled on the misery, stunting her growth, disfigu...

20/03/2024

US listeners - this incredible play about the round-the-world adventure of our beloved bicyclist Annie Londonderry https://whatshernamepodcast.com/annie-londonderry/ is finally coming to California!!!

Excuse us while we go consult our calendars to figure out how to get both of us there at the same time... 😍

In today's San Diego Union-Tribune...it's really happening!

20/03/2024

As the first female cabinet secretary in US history, Frances Perkins was the only woman in the room… a lot. Hear more about this fascinating woman in our new episode THE SOLID CITIZEN with guest .dray !

15/03/2024

From the invention of the telephone to Hull House to the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire to the Golden Gate Bridge to FDR’s New Deal, Frances Perkins was there.

As Olivia says in our episode THE SOLID CITIZEN, “she’s the Forrest Gump of the Gilded Age.” Added bonus: she was REAL!

13/03/2024

New episode LIVE NOW! shorturl.at/lzDW2 Frances Perkins, the first female cabinet secretary in US history, was the mind (and the will) behind nearly every landmark victory of the Roosevelt administration’s New Deal – so why doesn’t anyone know her name?

NYT bestselling novelist Stephanie Dray, Author introduces us to the remarkable woman whose vision and relentless hard work would touch the life of every American for nearly a century.

(Olivia's been waiting SIX YEARS for this episode - so you know it's gonna be good! :) )

08/03/2024

It's been quite a week here at What'sHerName - the launch of our new book *A Stinky History of Toilets* bit.ly/438cjiO - celebrating - AND NOW these very exciting beans we've been anxiously waiting to spill for a whole year: WE WROTE YOU ANOTHER BOOK, Y'ALL!

To be precise, we wrote you a *history of the world with the women put back in!* https://bit.ly/3wM1eIt A truly global history (for adults this time), What's Her Name tells our shared human story through the lives of 80 fascinating women. And we cannot WAIT to share it with you. 💛

Publishing this year: UK-June, AUS-July, US-Dec. (More language editions coming soon!)

07/03/2024

Have you heard our new episode THE EQUESTRIAN? It’s such a fascinating (and heartwarming) story for anyone who loves animals. Here’s my copy of Celia Brayfield’s new book, which I rocketed through. Highly recommend!

05/03/2024

It’s RELEASE day! (I swear, every sentence becomes a p**p pun with this book.) To celebrate our new children’s book, A STINKY HISTORY OF TOILETS, here are just a few of my favorite cheeky illustrations by the brilliant Ella Kasperowicz.

You can find the book online in our bookshop at whatshernamepodcast.com or anywhere books are sold. If you spot the book in the wild - or get it in the mail - we’d love to see a picture!