Chickstory
Annie & Phoebe
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This is Chickstory! A podcast about chicks... in history. Each episode Annie (curious chickstorian) is joined by Phoebe (actual historian) to share some of the most remarkable stories about often overlooked women of history.
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Recent Episodes
S8E8 S8 Ep 8 - Eunice Newton Foote & Kitty McEwan
In the final episode of the season, Annie tells Phoebe all about Eunice Newton Foote - an American scientist, inventor, and women's rights campaigner who was the first scientist to identify the…
S8E7 S8 Ep 7 - Alice Cornwell & Amy Johnson
In this week's episode, Phoebe tells Annie all about Alice Cornwell, a British goldmining industrialist and newspaper proprietor who made her fortune from gold and floated her company on the London…
S8E6 S8 Ep 6 - The 'Ladies' Bridge & Phoebe Chappel
In this episode, Annie tells Phoebe the real story of the Waterloo Bridge, otherwise known as the "Ladies Bridge", and Phoebe tells Annie all about Phoebe Chappel - MM MBBS BSc, a South Australian…
S8E5 S8 Ep 5 - Louise Mack and Bertha Benz
In this week's episode - Phoebe tells Annie all about Australian poet, journalist and novelist Louise Mack, who in 1914 became the first female war correspondent during World War I and Annie tells…
S8E4 S8 Ep 4 - Emma Goldman & Isabel Myers Briggs
In this episode, Annie tells Phoebe all about Isabel Myers Briggs, an American writer who co-created the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator with her mother, Katharine Cook Briggs. The MBTI is one of the…
S8E3 S8 Ep 3 - Mary Somerville & Valentina Tereshkova
In this episode, Phoebe tells Annie all about Mary Somerville, a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath who studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 was elected the first female Honorary…
S8E1 S8 Ep 2 - Mary Blair & Brettena Smythe
In this episode, Annie tells Phoebe about Mary Blair, a prominent concept artist who was pivotal in producing well-known art and animation for The Walt Disney Company, and Phoebe tells Annie about…
S8E1 S8 Ep 1 - Kate Cocks & Louisa Lawson
We're back!! Welcome to season 8. This season, we're mixing things up a little. We'll be bringing you two Chickstories a month in one bumper episode. We are also proudly now part of the broad radio…
Introducing - Can I Pat Your Dog? With Yvie Jones
Hi Chickstorians! Just jumping into your feed to let you know Chickstory is taking a wee break while Annie works on a brand new podcast with the OG Chickstorian Yvie Jones called Can I Pat Your Dog?…
S7E15 S7 Ep 15 - Slawa Duldig
In the final ep of Season 7, Annie tells Phoebe all about Slawa Horowitz, an inventor, artist, interior designer, and teacher who designed, patented and manufactured the folding umbrella! If you…
S7E14 S7 Ep 14 - Ettie Rout
This week, Phoebe tells Annie all about Ettie Rout, a safe sex campaigner in World War 1, who designed safe sex kits after recognising the venereal disease problem during the war. Her kits were…
S7E13 S7 Ep 13 - Eleanor of Toledo
This week, Annie tells Phoebe all about Eleanor of Toledo, a Spanish noblewoman who became the world's first lady as the Duchess of Florence—the first wife of Cosimo I de' Medici. A keen…
S7E12 S7 Ep 12 - Marie Beuzeville Byles
This week, Phoebe tells Annie all about Marie Beuzeville Byles, the first practising female solicitor in New South Wales. She was also an Australian conservationist, pacifist, mountaineer, explorer,…
S7E11 S7 Ep 11 - Jane Addams
This week, Annie tells Phoebe all about Jane Addams, who was instrumental in developing Social Work as a profession and was also the first American woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. If you have a…
S7E10 S7 Ep 10 - Emma Constance Stone
This week, Phoebe tells Annie all about Emma Constance Stone, the first woman to practice medicine in Australia who played an important role in founding both the Queen Victoria Hospital and the…
S7E9 S7 Ep 9 - Clara Barton
This week, Annie tells Phoebe all about Clara (Clarissa) Barton, an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She is known for her humanitarian work and civil rights advocacy right up until…
S7E8 S7 Ep 8 - Maria Orosa
This week, Phoebe tells Annie all about Maria Orosa, a food technologist, pharmaceutical chemist, humanitarian, and war heroine who also invented Banana ketchup!P.S. - If you have a spare 2 mins we'd…
S7E7 S7 Ep 7 - Dorothy Thompson
This week, Annie tells Phoebe all about Dorothy Thompson, the first American journalist in history to be expelled from Germany (after meeting Hitler and calling him a 'little man') and was one of the…
S7E6 S7 Ep 6 - Florence Mary Taylor
This week, Phoebe tells Annie all about Florence May Taylor, the first qualified female architect in Australia and the first female member of the UK's Institution of Structural Engineers in 1926.P.S.…
S7E5 S7 Ep 5 - Stephanie Kwolek
This week, Annie tells Phoebe all about Stephanie Kwolek who created the first of a family of synthetic fibres of exceptional strength and stiffness. The best known of these fibres is Kevlar which…
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Chickstory has published 131 episodes since June 2020, covering topics in Documentary, History.
Chickstory is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 43m.
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