Her Half of History

@phihpod Yes! She is my latest subject: herhalfofhistory.com/2024/12/05/mrs…

@her_half Do you have a podcast on her? If so I will send around,

If you're feeling like #Christmas is a lot of unseen work by the woman of the house, then Mrs. Santa Claus is entirely on your side, even as written by the 19th century magazine writers who created her. herhalfofhistory.com/2024/12/05/mrs…

@jannekebudding Thanks!

Let's hear it for Mrs. Santa Claus!

I had a great time talking all things laundry with Shea from the History Fix Podcast! The history of laundry is so much more fun than actually doing my laundry... #womenshistory #womeninhistory herhalfofhistory.com/2024/11/21/lau…

Exciting news about a former subject of my show! Amalia Kussner is getting a biography by @phihpod . Available now for preorder. a.co/d/2m3hMyn

Words of advice from the Woods' Household Magazine, 1870 to Young Ladies:

Remembering Joan of Arc, whose letter to the citizens of Riom was sent #OTD in 1429 Currently on display @britishlibrary, the letter bears Joan's first known signature blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

@abertrotzdem @fakehistoryhunt Thank you!

@her_half @fakehistoryhunt They weren’t as colourfast as chemical dyes. Keep in mind that a lot of top clothing wasn’t laundered very often. If you have a pure wool garment you don’t need to wash it every few days. You hang it outside for freshening up. Undergarments we’re often linen undyed.

Just look at the colours you can make with just plants and some people still find it difficult to believe that our ancestors through the centuries wanted but also had colourful clothing, not just brown, grey drab rags.

@badly_wired @fakehistoryhunt @redrubyrose_ Thanks for the info! And the new vocabulary word! (I had to look up mordant. 😀)

@her_half @fakehistoryhunt Using a mordant would provide some dye fixing to the textile, depending on the type. The quoted account, @redrubyrose_, is a great follow for all your plant dye questions.

@redrubyrose_ @fakehistoryhunt Thank you!

@her_half @fakehistoryhunt There is colourfastness to these dyes as long as the washing is gentle and appropriate. Madder, cochineal, weld and indigo are classic dyes. Textiles pre-1870s were dyed with plants/insects and some of those colourful textiles are still in museum / archive collections today.

However, I think Nevada might like a word about the articles' use of largest female legislative majority.

Some election news I will comment on! My home state has a female governor, 3 women out of 5 state supreme justices, and 54% female legislators. In a healthy system, balances like that will sometimes happen. Good to see women in those roles being normalized.

If everyone had better history lessons in school, the world would be a better place. Then again, I would say that wouldn't I.

C. S. Lewis, perspective reset

@ingrid1dewaal She is in the episode! Just not in the pictures. No particular reason for that. These 6 are chosen mostly at random because pictures of all 30 or so I mentioned would make them too small to be seen. I'm glad you know about so many though! We need more visibility! 😃

@her_half And Indira Gandhi?

Why spend all day fretting about today's election when you could spend 15 minutes of it reading/listening about elections that are safely over and the world did not end? (direct link in the bio and 1st comment)

@ingrid1dewaal Oh, it's not a complete list for sure! I'm happy to say that at this point, there have been too many women elected for me to cover them all in one episode. I mostly focused on the earlier ones.

@her_half I miss Aung San Suu Kiy here?

Here's the direct link: herhalfofhistory.com/2024/11/05/wom…

To that woman who thinks life would be better as a historical farmwife: please read The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder. You'll see isolation, depression, debt+inability to earn, house burning down, failed harvests, etc. The cover looks cute, but the life was hard.