Olivia Meikle

Reading What's Her Name - A History of the World in 80 Lost Women from @whatshernamepod.bsky.social and wondering how I've never heard of Fu Hao, Shang general and general badass.

Side note, women leading the way into battle is not a new thing.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_Hao

OMG why didn't we think of this

Narrator: "She was, in fact, a genius."

100% can confirm.

This is actually, for the most part, the only way I ever get ANYTHING done.

One hundred percent.

True story. My husband is on a trip to India and just surprised me with these photos. He accidentally came across our book in India and we didn’t even know it had been licensed there! 🤯 How is this real life!?!

Screenshot of the What’s Her Name podcast on Spotify Christmas episode from author Ursula Bloom with a black and white photo of the author with a 1920’s bob.

It is now time for my annual listening of the Ursula Bloom Christmas Special from the What’s Her Name podcast. It has ghosts, food, toys, and an elephant.

What's Her Name: A History of the World in 80 Lost Women a book by Katie Nelson and Olivia Meikle What if some of the most phenomenal lives in human history were, for centuries, forgotten? For centuries, the achievements of countless influential women have remained overshadowed. Sisters Katie Nels...

Oh I LOVE THIS!

(And after all - to quote from the new What's Her Name book shorturl.at/vMLhT - couldn't we ALL benefit from a little "Less Patriarchy, More Elephant." :) )

What a wonderful review of our new book! ❤️❤️

"The story told within those chapters takes that structure, spins it around, holds it upside down and shakes it until things fall out of its pockets. The result is dizzying, and enlightening." - Pamela Toler 😍

TODAY is our US/CA book birthday!! Zoom out and witness a new take on the whole incredible human saga in WHAT'S HER NAME, A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 80 LOST WOMEN! We won't be doing a media blitz until after the holidays so please help us share and get the word out! ❤️📘🎂 #BookBirthday

BIG NEWS! At long (long long) last, my big book is now available in my own country! USians rejoice, A History of the World in 80 Lost Women is FINALLY here - just in time for the holidays! Order in our bookshop shorturl.at/vMLhT, at @barnesandnoble.com, on Amazon, or from your local indie bookstore!

BIG NEWS for US & Canadian fans: after so many months of (im)patiently waiting, our newest book is FINALLY (almost) HERE! Preorder your copy now @ bookshop.org/a/18346/9780486853468 (& ofc y'all UK/NZ/AUS-ers can still get it anytime you want, anywhere you want, like the total showoffs you are.)

One month away! 🥰

When the world is chaos, we find that the big picture of world history sheds a bright and beautiful light on everything. That's what we wanted to share with you - a spark for your curious mind, and a balm for your weary soul. Out now in UK/AU, coming to the US/CA on DEC 17!

Happy London book birthday to @restingniceface.bsky.social and Katie Nelson of the @whatshernamepod.bsky.social podcast. (Those of us in the US will have to wait until December.)

This is amaaaaaaazing, what an incredible project! 😍

willy wonka is wearing a purple suit and top hat and talking to a boy . ALT: willy wonka is wearing a purple suit and top hat and talking to a boy .

So many people here and so many of you are historians (or fans of history)! Our passion is bringing back the stories of amazing women in history. If you have come across any historical women that should have their story better known. Tell us ⬇️! We'd love to know who you have found! #WomensHistory

There is not. Because (as you'll soon discover) with Dr Frizzle it is ALWAYS just exactly whatever Very Impossible Thing she said it was, and it ALWAYS actually happened. For real. 😂

Best follow on the internet, hands down.

One of the best parts of this mass emigration to The Good Place so far has been watching, in gleeful by-proxy anticipation, as so many of y'all get to experience Dr. Frizzle's Greatest Hits for the very first time.

I'm pretty sure this one is just from Amazon. I unfortunately tend to err on the side of QUANTITY corsets over QUALITY corsets. 😬😂

THE BLOOD COUNTESS Elizabeth Báthory — What'shername Countess Elizabeth Báthory was a monster – a sadistic, murderous vampire witch who, in her castle in Hungary in the early 1600s, tortured and murdered over 600 young girls, then bathed in the blood...

It’s here! New #Halloween special! Countess Elizabeth Báthory was a monster – a sadistic vampire witch who tortured and murdered over 600 girls, then bathed in their blood. Or did she? Was she truly the supreme supernatural evil of 500 years of legend? Find out! 👇 t.co/CCW0AyhVWR