by The History Chicks | Apr 10, 2025 | Episode, Podcasts
Hermine Santrouschitz was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungry on February 15, 1909. Her earliest memories are of the start of what would become World War 1. As the war ravaged her country, it was a tough life in the city as food and work became scarce for her family. That situation became dangerous as malnourishment and tuberculosis hit young Hermine so much, that the only way to save her life was to send her to a foster family outside of Austria.
(more…)by The History Chicks | Jan 22, 2025 | Biography Episode, Episode, Podcasts
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by The History Chicks | Sep 14, 2023 | Episode, Podcasts
Barbe-Nicole Clicquot lived an upper-class life during a tumultuous time in French history and, upon her marriage, worked with her husband in a very unusual capacity: helping to run a family vineyard. But, when he passed away at a very young age, she made an unusual and audacious choice about how to live her life.
(more…)Beckett Graham and Susan Vollenweider: Two women. Half the population. Several thousand years of history. About an hour.
