A Feminist Family History in Eight Lives

By Kate Carruthers Thomas

Kate Carruthers Thomas retraces the lives of her grandmothers and great-grandmothers over ten generations, telling stories of women’s lives: the hidden side of family history.... more

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The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.

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August 12, 2024 A Few Forgotten Women
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: [email protected]
w: Think Three Ways website - project pages.
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24min
July 18, 2024 Creating Feminist Walks
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: [email protected]
·
Think
Three Ways website - project pages.
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12min
July 15, 2024 11. Making a Feminist Family History
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: [email protected]
·      Think Three Ways website - project pages.
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20min
July 08, 2024 10. Jennet: A Letter to Martha
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: [email protected]
·      Think Three Ways website - project pages.
https://www.quaker.org.uk/history-of-quakers
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15min
July 01, 2024 9. Margrit: The Planter's Wife
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: [email protected]
·      Think Three Ways website - project pages.
...more
15min
June 24, 2024 8. The Life and Times of Philadelphia Carruthers
Continuing the series of stories about my grandmothers and great-grandmothers, this week’s episode moves to Scotland to find out about my sixth paternal great-grandmother, Philadelphia Carruthers. This episode manages to combine clan politics and Hello magazine!
You can now listen to this podcast series on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts and Audible.
REFERENCES
Heirs of Enslavement
Podcast with Laura Trevelyan and Clive Lewis. Persephonica
Richard Drax: Jamaica eyes slavery reparations from Tory MP BBC News 30/11/22
David Harewood: Portrait to diversify Harewood House art collection BBC News 606/03/23
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 www.thinkthreeways.com
KEEP IN TOUCH:
·       e: [email protected]
·      Think Three Ways website - project pages.
...more
16min
June 10, 2024 7. Catherine Kneebone. What Might Have Been.

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: [email protected]
·      Think Three Ways website - project pages.

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19min
June 03, 2024 6. The Genealogical Road Trip
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: [email protected]
·      Think Three Ways website - project pages.
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22min
May 27, 2024 5. Catharine Dolphin: Parallel Lives
Meet Catharine Dolphin (1841-1922), my maternal great-great grandmother, who was born into wealth but lived and died in a pit village. How social stigma led family members to live parallel lives.
REFERENCES
Edgerton, D. (2018) The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth Century History. London: Allen Lane.
Elliott, B. (2014) Tracing your Coalmining Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians. Barnsley: Pen & Sword.
Horn, P. (2016). My ancestor was in service: A guide to sources for family historians London: Society of
Genealogists Enterprises Limited.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
·    Music:
Thinking Ahead. https://www.purple-planet.com
·    Thanks to Dr Suzanne Albary for inspiration and top tips!

KEEP IN TOUCH:
·       e: [email protected]
·      Think Three Ways website - project pages.
...more
16min
May 20, 2024 4. Anna: From Service to Shipyard
Meet Anna Rookley (1858-1949), my paternal great-grandmother, whose long life was lived in the shadow of the shipyards. The hidden side of family history.
Thanks to Rodda Thomas for his contribution to this episode.

REFERENCES
·      Horn, P., (2016). My ancestor was in service: A guide to sources for family historians London: Society of Genealogists Enterprises Limited.
·      Titanic Belfast. https://www.titanicbelfast.com/
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
·      Music: Thinking Ahead. https://www.purple-planet.com
·      Dr Suzanne Albary for inspiration and top tips!

KEEP IN TOUCH:
·      e: [email protected]
·      X: @drkcarrutherst
·      My website: www.thinkthreeways.com
o  https://www.thinkthreeways.com/feminist-family-history-in-eight-lives-the-podcast/
o  https://www.thinkthreeways.com/artwork/graphic-social-science/a-feminist-family-history-in-eight-lives/

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FAQs about A Feminist Family History in Eight Lives:

How many episodes does A Feminist Family History in Eight Lives have?

The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.