This second bonus episode of A Feminist Family History in Eight Lives features an interview with three members of the A Few Forgotten Women team: Margaret Roberts, Mandy Geary and Helen Shields. They are all experienced family historians and work with nine other women to uncover and preserve the memories of just some of those women which might otherwise be lost.

In the episode Margaret, Mandy and Helen explain the origin of the A Few Forgotten Women initiative, give some examples of their varied work and tell listeners how they can get involved in the forthcoming Forgotten Women Friday!

A Few Forgotten Women https://www.fewforgottenwomen.com/

A Few Forgotten Women Fridays

https://www.fewforgottenwomen.com/general-6

Margaret Roberts:

https://www.playingpasts.co.uk/ X:@researchdogbody

Mandy Geary:

X: @TheRootsGenie, Threads: @mandytherootsgenie Insta: @mandytherootsgenie

All About That Place 2024 https://bit.ly/3M22zPu

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

· Music: Thinking Ahead. https://www.purple-planet.com

· Thanks to Dr Suzanne Albary for inspiration and top tips!

· Thanks to Ben Robertson for updates to my website thinkthreeways.com

KEEP IN TOUCH:

e: kate.thomas@bcu.ac.uk

w: Think Three Ways website - project pages.

Creating Feminist Walks

This bonus episode of A Feminist Family History in Eight Lives features an interview with Professor Maggie O’Neill, feminist, sociologist and criminologist at University College. In it, Maggie talks about creating four feminist walks: in Durham, London, Newcastle and Cork.

LINKS

Professor Maggie O’Neill. https://www.professormaggieoneill.com/

Professor Misha Myers https://www.gre.ac.uk/people/rep/las/professor-misha-myers

Other walking artists who have influenced Maggie:

· Dee Heddon https://walkinglibraryproject.wordpress.com/about-us/

· Clare Qualmann https://clarequalmann.co.uk/

Jan Haaken https://www.jhaaken.com/

Feminist Walk - Searching for Asylum https://vimeo.com/176763871

Walk of the Heroines. Portland State University https://www.pdx.edu/heroines/

Dr Nelli Stavropoulou https://www.open.ac.uk/people/ns9939

Feminists Walking in the City https://walkingborders.wordpress.com/2017/04/14/feminists-walking-in-the-city/comment-page-1/

Holly Argent https://anne.art/artist/holly-argent/

Women Artists of the North-East www.womenartistsnelibrary.co.uk

A Feminist Walk of Newcastle:

· https://www.walkingborders.com/post/a-feminist-walk-in-newcastle

· Podcast from Sociological Review Undisciplining Conference: https://thesociologicalreview.org/projects/undisciplining/the-undisciplining-sessions/developing-a-feminist-walk-of-newcastle/

A Feminist Walk of Cork https://www.feministwalkcork.ie/

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

· Music: Thinking Ahead. https://www.purple-planet.com

· Thanks to Dr Suzanne Albary for inspiration and top tips!

· Thanks to Ben Robertson for updates to thinkthreeways.com

KEEP IN TOUCH:

· e: kate.thomas@bcu.ac.uk

· Think Three Ways website - project pages.

In the final episode of A Feminist Family History in Eight Lives, I reflect on my experiences of creating this podcast series about my grandmothers and great-grandmothers. I’m also in conversation with Professor Maggie O’Neill, an expert in biographical and walking research.

REFERENCES

Light, A. (2014 ) Common People: The History of an English Family, Penguin. (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56773/common-people-by-light-alison/9780141039862)

Meinzer, K. (2019) So You Want To Start a Podcast. Harper Collins.

Professor Maggie O’Neill. https://www.professormaggieoneill.com/

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

· Music: Thinking Ahead. https://www.purple-planet.com

· Thanks to Dr Suzanne Albary for inspiration and top tips!

· Thanks to Ben Robertson for updates to www.thinkthreeways.com

KEEP IN TOUCH:

· e: in8lives@gmail.com

· Think Three Ways website - project pages.

The eighth and final story of this podcast series about my grandmothers and six of my great-grandmothers. This week we’re back in England, in the north-west, in the 1600s. After the English Civil War, religious dissent is on the rise and Jennet Greenhow, my tenth maternal great-grandmother is caught up in the rise of early Quakerism.

You can now listen to this podcast series on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts and Audible.

REFERENCES

Quakers in Britain

Grubb, M. (2002) The Quakers of Mosedale. Mosedale Preparative Meeting. 2e.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

· Music: Thinking Ahead. https://www.purple-planet.com

· Thanks to Dr Suzanne Albary for inspiration and top tips!

· Thanks to Ben Robertson for ongoing updates to thinkthreeways.com

KEEP IN TOUCH:

· e: in8lives@gmail.com

· Think Three Ways website - project pages.

https://www.quaker.org.uk/history-of-quakers

Continuing the series of stories about my grandmothers and great-grandmothers, this week’s episode crosses the Atlantic to what was the British colony of Maryland to tell the story of my seventh maternal great-grandmother, Margrit McClester.

You can now listen to this podcast series on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts and Audible.

REFERENCES

Carr, L.G and Walsh, L.S (1977) The Planter’s Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth Century Maryland. The William and Mary Quarterly, 34:4 pp. 542-571.

Conditions in the Early Colonies, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History https://naturalhistory.si.edu/sites/default/files/media/file/wibconditionsearlycoloniesfinal.pdf

Life in Colonial America Prior to the Revolutionary War. American Battlefield Trust. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/life-colonial-america-prior-revolutionary-war

McMillen, C.W. (2016) Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

US history: https://www.ushistory.org

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

· Music: Thinking Ahead. https://www.purple-planet.com

· Thanks to Dr Suzanne Albary for inspiration and top tips!

· Thanks to Ben Robertson for ongoing updates to thinkthreeways.com

KEEP IN TOUCH:

· e: in8lives@gmail.com

· Think Three Ways website - project pages.

Catherine Kneebone: What Might Have Been.

Continuing the series of stories about my grandmothers and great-grandmothers, this week’s episode stars another Cornishwoman, Catherine Kneebone, my fourth maternal great-grandmother. Plus I admit to taking a wrong turn!

This podcast can now be found on Apple Podcasts Connect: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-feminist-family-history-in-eight-lives/id1748422593

REFERENCES

Du Maurier, D. (1967) Vanishing Cornwall. London: Victor Gollancz.

Light, A. (2014 ) Common People: The History of an English Family, Penguin.
(https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56773/common-people-by-light-alison/9780141039862)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

· Music: Thinking Ahead. https://www.purple-planet.com

· Thanks to Dr Suzanne Albary for inspiration and top tips!

· Thanks to Ben Robertson for updates to thinkthreeways.com

KEEP IN TOUCH:

· e: in8lives@gmail.com

· Think Three Ways website - project pages.

In a different sort of episode, find out about one of the key methods I use to research and recreate the lives and stories of my grandmothers and great-grandmothers: the genealogical road trip! Come with me on the South West Sojourn and the North East Excursion!

REFERENCES

Beamish: The Living Museum of the North East https://www.beamish.org.uk/

Kresen Kernow https://kresenkernow.org/

Light, A. (20?? ) Common People: The History of an English Family, Penguin. (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56773/common-people-by-light-alison/9780141039862)

Royal William Yard https://royalwilliamyard.com/

The Box https://www.theboxplymouth.com/

The Newlyn Archive https://newlynarchive.org.uk/

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

· Music: Thinking Ahead. https://www.purple-planet.com

· Thanks to Dr Suzanne Albary for inspiration and top tips!

KEEP IN TOUCH:

· e: in8lives@gmail.com

· Think Three Ways website - project pages.