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The Forgotten Wife: Harriet Shelley, Suicide, and the Erasure of Women’s Pain
On World Suicide Prevention Day, we remember a young woman written out of history — and the patterns of silence that still echo.
Sep 10 • 
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Catherine of Aragon: 'No Way'
Survivor of Patriarchy, Gaslighting, and a King with a God Complex
Sep 10 • 
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Five Shillings for Safety: Catherine Doran and Domestic Violence in 1830s Dublin
What one woman’s testimony reveals about survival, silence, and the price of justice in nineteenth-century Ireland
Sep 3 • 
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🚨 Episode 1 of The Forgotten is Live
Survivor histories of abuse, coercion, and silence
Aug 30 • 
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Henry VIII: The OG Coercive Controller
How England’s most infamous king weaponised marriage, law and power in patterns we now call coercive control
Aug 28 • 
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‘She Now Forgave Him’: Forgiveness, Coercive Control, and the Case of Patrick Curran, 1808
When a woman forgave her abuser in court - and the press amplified her words - it revealed how coercive control shaped the lives of ordinary Irish…
Aug 25 • 
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