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Never Heard Of Her
History made them footnotes. We’re giving them the microphone.
Hello and welcome to Never Heard Of Her - Badass Women of World History (formerly known as Raiders of the Lost Archive - The MITFORD Podcast)
Never Heard of Her is the history podcast unearthing the brilliant, scandalous, and fiercely unruly women history books conveniently left in the footnotes.
From aristocratic rebels and radical muckrakers to eccentric trailblazers who refused to play by the rules, we dig through the archives to…
Episodes
Never Heard Of HerChristine de Pizan (1 of 2)
😢💰👑Grief, Debt, and Royal Inks: Christine de Pizan Takes up the Quill 📜🪶 What happens when 14th-century Paris gives you a brilliant scholarly upbringing, only…
Never Heard Of HerZheng Yi (Cheng Shih) 鄭一嫂
🏴☠️⛵From the Brothel to Commanding a Pirate Fleet: Zheng Yi’s Empire ⚔️ In 1775, a baby girl entered the world with an unbelievable career ahead of her…
Never Heard Of HerSally Ride
🚀🪐Rocket Science vs. Female Anatomy: Sally Ride Takes Flight 👩🚀🌌 Before 1983, American space travel was an all-boys club where astrophysics made total sense…
Never Heard Of HerLaskarina Bouboulina
⚔️💢Born in Jail, Built to Command: The Untold Story of Laskarina Bouboulina 🚢⚓ Born in a prison cell and destined to lead a revolution, Laskarina Bouboulina…
Never Heard Of HerElisabeth Selbert
👩⚖️📚Democracy through Persistance: How Germany got Equality ♀️♂️ When a room full of post-war male politicians tried to sneak "women are equal but…" into West…
Never Heard Of HerThe True Story of Veuve Clicquot🍾
Pop the cork and raise a glass to the woman who turned French fizz into a global phenomenon. In our debut episode of Never Heard of Her, we dive into the…
Never Heard Of HerNever Heard Of Her - Trailer
Something NEW is coming your way: Never Heard Of Her - Badass Women of World History! We're definitely done with the Mitfords and we're off to new shores -…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - BONUS: Epilogue
📣 Epilogue - The Final Curtain: A Year With the Mitfords 🤗 We survived Nazis, prison, secret weddings, McCarthy, and at least six nervous breakdowns (ours, not…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - BONUS: interview with Carla Kaplan
📣 The Ultimate Rebellious Redhead: Chatting Troublemaker with Carla Kaplan! 🚩💥 How does a high-society British aristocrat run away to fight fascists, join the…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - BONUS: Interview with Adam Gee
💖🕊️The Two Extremes of Mitford History 💢🤛 Uncover Hitler’s alleged secret baby and get close to the violent post-WWII street fights that took down London…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Letters 6
🔴🐏 Red Sheep vs. Black Shirt ⚫👕& Sisterly Showdowns: The Mitford Letters (1965–1975) 🤼♀️ In this sixth and last installment, we follow the sisters as they…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Letters 5
👑💃🕺 Royal Flashmobs & Presidential Playboys: The Mitford Letters (1960–1963) 🇺🇸🤠 The sisters have officially entered middle age, but if you thought they were…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Letters 4
🕯️👊 Chandeliers & East End Schemes: The Mitford Letters (1947–1958) 🕊️💅 The war is finally over and our Mitford sisters are busy reinventing themselves for the…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Letters 3
⚔️🥳Wartime Woes & Joys: The Mitford Letters (1939–1945) 💔🇬🇧 The world erupts into global conflict, aka WWII, and our Mitfords face tragedy and joy in between…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Letters 2
💒👹Fascist Weddings & Beastly Presents: The Mitford Letters (1933–1936) 🤫✉️ What happens when your sisterly group chat is a stack of handwritten letters, and…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Letters 1
✉️😈 The Mitford Letters, the Frivolity of Evil, and the Rise of Hitler 🏛️🇩🇪 This week, we start giving you the highlights of the private correspondence of the…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Debo 7
✨👧The Last Mitford Standing: How Debo Saved Chatsworth 🚜👑 In this final episode on Deborah Mitford, we witness how the baby sister turns into the savior of the…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Debo 6
⚔️🍌From the Glorious Revolution to going bananas: The Cavendishes rising through the ranks 👑🏰 Every dynasty has a starting point, and this week we are tracing…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Debo 5
🏰🌳Debo’s Lifework: The Secrets of Chatsworth House ⛲🐐🧘 Welcome to this playground of the British aristocracy. This week, we are stepping away from the Mitford…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Debo 4
💔 The Tragedy, The Spare, and The Kennedy Connection: Debo’s Years of Trial 🕊️🗝️ In this episode, we explore some of the toughest years of Deborah Mitford’s…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Debo 3
💍✨From a Noble Wedding to a Mysterious Country House Death 🏰☠️ For Deborah Mitford, marrying a Cavendish meant marrying their ghosts, too. We’re unpacking the…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Debo 2
👑 Noble Ranks & Tea with Hitler: Debo Meets her Duke ☕🤴 Before Deborah Mitford could become a Duchess, she had to navigate the labyrinth of British high…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Debo 1
👒 The Duchess of Poultry: Debo’s Childhood in the Mitford Fortress 🏰🐣 Are you ready to shift gears from the "Communist" to the "Duchess"? Because Deborah’s…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Decca 8
✍️🔥The Queen of Muckrakers & Life in the USA 🎤✊ This is the grand finale of Decca’s journey from aristocratic life in Oxfordshire to the front lines of…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Decca 7
🚢 The Prodigal Daughter: A Riveting Return to the Family Fold 🕵️♀️🇬🇧 After over a decade away, Jessica Mitford finally crosses the Atlantic for a surreal and…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Decca 6
✊⚖️The Muckraker & The Lawyer: Decca’s Crusade in America 🇺🇸🚩 No longer just a rebellious aristocrat, Jessica Mitford fully embraces her role as a tireless…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Decca 5
🌉 The Golden Gate Rebel: Decca’s American Life 🇺🇸 Stranded and widowed in wartime Washington, Jessica Mitford refuses to play the tragic aristocrat, instead…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Decca 4
💔Farewell Europe: The Red Sheep Takes Manhattan🗽 After the high-seas drama of their escape, Jessica Mitford and Esmond Romilly trade their spy-thriller life…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Decca 3
🔥Deserters & Destroyers - a Spy-Thriller Elopement 🕵️♀️ While the rest of the Mitfords panicked, Jessica and Esmond were busy executing a spy-thriller escape…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Decca 2
🌬️🏃➡️🏃♀️➡️Rebellious Teenagers and the Great Escape 🚢 🚩 The rebellion has officially moved beyond the dinner table! In this episode, we follow Jessica…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Decca 1
Jessica Mitford—The Red Sheep with the Running Away Fund 🚩🐑💰💨 We are officially DONE with the fascists! After spending weeks in the dark company of Unity and…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitfords - Unity 7 & Hitler's women
The Fall of the Valkyrie & the shocking pattern 🫣 [WARNING: There could be quotes that are anti-semitic and disturbing.] The saga of the Nazi Mitford sister…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Unity 6
The End of the Dream and the Sound of the Gun 💔 [WARNING: There could be quotes that are anti-semitic and disturbing.] The party is over, and the lights are…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Unity 5
WARNING: There will be some quotes that are anti-semitic and disturbing. Unity Mitford is no longer just a guest in Munich—she’s practically part of the…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Unity 4
WARNING: There will be some quotes that are anti-semitic and disturbing. Unity Mitford hasn’t just entered the room—she’s moved into the inner circle. It’s…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Unity 3
Get ready for the ultimate masterclass in "How to Stalk a Dictator." In this third episode about Unity Mitford, we follow her as she packs her bags, leaves the…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Unity 2
Let’s follow the most notorious Mitford sister into adulthood! In this episode, we explore how Unity Mitford transformed from every teacher’s nightmare into a…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Unity 1
Buckle up, because it’s time to meet "Sister Number 4"—the most obsessed, attention-seeking, and truly bizarre member of the Mitford clan: Unity Valkyrie…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Diana 9
The final curtain call for Diana Mitford! In this comprehensive, concluding episode, we attempt to untangle the knotted legacy of the most controversial…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Diana 8
It’s Prison Time, baby! The WWII saga of Diana Mitford reaches its climax! This intense episode covers Diana and Oswald Mosley's time in prison, the outrage…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Diana 7
The world is at war, and the stakes for Diana Mitford (now Diana Mosley) couldn't be higher! In this high-stakes times, we trace her life from 1939 into the…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Diana 6
The 1930s are racing toward war, and Diana Mitford is right in the eye of the storm! In this monumental episode, we cover the years 1936 to 1938, revealing…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Diana 5
Brace yourselves: From Diana’s memories of meeting Adolf Hitler and the huge scandal in sunny Naples to stitching up Diana’s face, we’ll bring it all to you!…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Diana 4
The plot thickens as the seeds for fascism in Britain are sown! In this critical episode, Diana Mitford trades her glittering social life first for the…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Diana 3
We're peeling back the layers on the man who changed Diana Mitford's life forever: the infamous political firebrand, Oswald Mosley! - Buckle up and be ready…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Diana 2
Get ready for a double dose of drama as we dive into the mid-life earthquake of Diana Mitford! In this episode, the beautiful Mitford sister makes a…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Diana 1
And just when you thought the Mitfords couldn't get any more outrageous, we turn the spotlight on the most dazzling—and polarizing—sister of them all: Diana…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Pam 2
And we’re back to continue and finish the fascinating story of Pamela Mitford, the sister who traded high society for the countryside! In today’s episode, we…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Pam 1
In today's episode, we’re turning our attention to the unsung hero of the Mitford clan: the ever-enigmatic Pamela Mitford. This one and the next episode are…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Nancy 4
Join us for the last part of our deep dive into the extraordinary life of Nancy Mitford! In this episode, we're following the oldest of the Mitford Sisters…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Nancy 3
Get ready, you curious minds and secret gossipers, because in this episode of Raiders of the Lost Archive, we're diving into the intense wartime life of Nancy…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Nancy 2
We’re the MITFORD Podcast, because we’ll tell you everything about the REAL Mitford sisters! We started last week with sister number 1, Nancy, and told you…
Never Heard Of HerThe real Mitford Sisters - Nancy 1
Welcome to our second season - after the UKTV series Outrageous has ended, it’s about time we’ll tell you everything about the REAL Mitfords! And we’ll kick…
Never Heard Of HerThe Mitford Podcast - Season 2 Trailer
... and now we can get started for REAL! :-D Season 2 of our Mitford Podcast is here! This is what we originally set out to do, here at Raiders of the Lost…
Never Heard Of HerOutrageous Episode 6 - Season Finale
Dear listeners and viewers, Mitford and Outrageous enthusiasts! This is it - the 6th and last episode of Outrageous is here: “Point of No Return” - The…
Never Heard Of HerOutrageous Episode 5 - Reality VS Fiction
Dear listeners and viewers, we’re so glad you’re joining us again for another outrageous MITFORD story as we dive into the fantastically outrageous UKTV /…
Never Heard Of HerOutrageous Episode 4 - Reality VS Fiction
Outrageous episode 4 is out: “Loving and Hating” and Lyn and Judith will review the episode and find out how it stacks up to the real life of the Mitfords. And…
Never Heard Of HerOutrageous Episode 3 - Reality VS Fiction
Dear listeners and viewers, we’re so glad you’re joining us again as we delve deeper into the world of outrageous MITFORD stories - and into the brand new UKTV…
Never Heard Of HerOutrageous Episode 2 - Fiction VS Reality
The second episode of Outrageous is out: “Girl on the Rebound”. And with it, the second podcast episode where Lyn and Judith review the episode and find out…
Never Heard Of HerOutrageous Episode 1 - Fiction VS Reality
Dear listeners and viewers, we’re so glad you’re joining us again as we delve deeper into the world of outrageous MITFORD stories - and into the brand new UKTV…