Mostly Unsung
The weekly comedy history podcast that brings you bitesize biographies of the extraordinary, eccentric, outrageous and occasionally ordinary lives that until now have gone mostly unsung... mostly. Join your hosts Annie and Andrea as they bring you stories that your history teacher never taught you!
If you like stuffy lectures then you're not going to be a fan, sorry! But if you are looking to hang out with two old friends who love story telling, a good laugh and forgotten figures from history then welcome!
Covering everything from scientists to Grandmothers, survivors of wars to eccentric millionaires, all via ghost stories, anecdotes and terrible impressions of Hollywood legend Tim Curry. Come and hang out, have a giggle and join us every Friday.
Mostly Unsung
#33 Fighting the Australian Government & An Archaeologist Rescuing The Past (Bessie Flower & Maud Cunnington)
Welcome back to Mostly Unsung, your new weekly history podcast that resurrects those long forgotten heroes and villains from the vaults of the past! Join Annie and Andrea, two old friends, as they bring to light the people your history teacher never told you about. Be prepared for mayhem, nonsense, a lot of barely suppressed anger and a debate about whether the 90s really were that awful.
This week, for the first time, Andrea is in Australia where a young aboriginal woman is enjoying well deserved recognition as both gifted teacher and a talented musician. Until she gets caught up in a whirlwind of religion, misogyny, a cheating husband and some real top class racists who happen to run the country. The only thing she has left is learn how to fight the system they have built.
Then Annie is in Wiltshire in the UK, it's Victorian Britain and archaeology is all the rage. A husband and wife team up to rescue the land around a world recognised land mark. Ensuring that the developers won't be able to bulldoze some of the most important discoveries of the century.
Andrea used these sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Flower
https://www.historicalbany.com.au/bessy-flower-menang
https://www.noongarculture.org.au/bessy-flower/
Annie used these sources:
https://arnosvale.org.uk/edith-maud-cunnington/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Cunnington
https://trowelblazers.com/2016/04/14/maud-cunnington/
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