Women Inspire
Ever pick up a history book and wonder where all the women were? Over half the world's population are female, so what have they been doing all this time? Well an awful lot as it happens! Join Laura as she delves into our rich and colourful past to tell stories of truly remarkable women through time. Stories which will uplift, empower and inspire.
Women Inspire
Annie Besant
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Laura Adams
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Season 1
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Episode 1
I ask no other epitaph on my tomb but "SHE TRIED TO FOLLOW TRUTH.”
Our podcast today brings you a remarkable individual - campaigner, activist, socialist and theosophist.
One of the great orators in British history, Annie’s ability to effect change for those marginalised in society defied convention at a time when women had no vote, supposedly no voice and her place was firmly in the home.
As Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw put it she ‘bounded’ into different movements with passion and resolution and inspired vilification and admiration in equal measure across continents.