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Matilda’s Top Women In History
Amanda Paterson
86 episodes
2 weeks ago

Let’s learn about some fascinating women in history



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Matilda’s Top Women In History
Caroline of Ansbach - the Cleverest Queen Consort

Caroline of Ansbach, wife and queen of George 2nd, is one of the lesser known British Queens. Which is a shame, as she was one of the cleverest and most influential. Born in a small German state, she went on to wield enormous influence over her husband and his kingdom. The British First Minister would approach Caroline before her husband, and the public loved her for her style and loathed her for her influence.



Sources/Further Reading

Dennison, Matthew: The First Iron Lady

Dennison, Matthew: Caroline of Ansbach: why George II's remarkable queen was the first iron lady of British politics 

https://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/caroline-of-ansbach-queen-britain-george-ii-first-iron-lady-politics-sex-symbol/

Hadlow, Janice: The strangest family - the private lives of George 3rd, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians

Worsley, Lucy: Courtiers, the Secret History of Kensington Palace

Finch, Barbara Clay: Lives of the Princesses of Wales https://archive.org/details/livesofprincesse02finc/page/284/mode/2up

Williams-McIntosh, Leah: Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Queen-Caroline-Brandenburg-Ansbach/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_of_Mecklenburg-Strelitz


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2 weeks ago
1 hour 5 minutes 35 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History
Caroline of Ansbach - The Cleverest Queen Consort (Minisode)

Caroline of Ansbach, wife and queen of George 2nd, is one of the lesser known British Queens. Which is a shame, as she was one of the cleverest and most influential. Born in a small German state, she went on to wield enormous influence over her husband and his kingdom. The British First Minister would approach Caroline before her husband, and the public loved her for her style and loathed her for her influence.



Sources/Further Reading

Dennison, Matthew: The First Iron Lady

Dennison, Matthew: Caroline of Ansbach: why George II's remarkable queen was the first iron lady of British politics 

https://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/caroline-of-ansbach-queen-britain-george-ii-first-iron-lady-politics-sex-symbol/

Hadlow, Janice: The strangest family - the private lives of George 3rd, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians

Worsley, Lucy: Courtiers, the Secret History of Kensington Palace

Finch, Barbara Clay: Lives of the Princesses of Wales https://archive.org/details/livesofprincesse02finc/page/284/mode/2up

Williams-McIntosh, Leah: Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Queen-Caroline-Brandenburg-Ansbach/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_of_Mecklenburg-Strelitz



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2 weeks ago
25 minutes 57 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History
Bess of Hardwick - An Empire Builder (minisode)

Bess of Hardwick was born in Hardwick Hall as the daughter of a relatively poor local squire. She died in almost the same spot 80 years later - but in a vastly different tax bracket. At her death, she was not only a Countess but she controlled enormous swathes of lands and ran a thriving business loaning money and selling timber, slate and bricks from her extensive properties. She was the richest woman in the country after Queen Elizabeth 1st, and was first a friend and then an enemy of Elizabeths great rival Mary Queen of Scots. Bess of Hardwick was there for some of the most well known and significant moments in English history, and her story is a remarkable one.


Sources/Further Reading:

Lovell, Mary S: Bess of Hardwick - First Lady of Chatsworth

Hubbard, Kate: A Material Girl - Bess of Hardwick 1527-1608

Gristwood, Sarah: Arbella - Englands Lost Queen

Armitage, Jill: Arbella Stuart - The Uncrowned Queen

Once Upon A Time in History: A St Loe Murder https://cupboardworld.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-st-loe-murderer.html

English Heritage: Bess of Hardwick https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/women-in-history/bess-of-hardwick/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bess_of_Hardwick#Death_and_burial



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3 weeks ago
22 minutes 29 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History
Bess of Hardwick - An Empire Builder

Bess of Hardwick was born in Hardwick Hall as the daughter of a relatively poor local squire. She died in almost the same spot 80 years later - but in a vastly different tax bracket. At her death, she was not only a Countess but she controlled enormous swathes of lands and ran a thriving business loaning money and selling timber, slate and bricks from her extensive properties. She was the richest woman in the country after Queen Elizabeth 1st, and was first a friend and then an enemy of Elizabeths great rival Mary Queen of Scots. Bess of Hardwick was there for some of the most well known and significant moments in English history, and her story is a remarkable one.


Sources/Further Reading:

Lovell, Mary S: Bess of Hardwick - First Lady of Chatsworth

Hubbard, Kate: A Material Girl - Bess of Hardwick 1527-1608

Gristwood, Sarah: Arbella - Englands Lost Queen

Armitage, Jill: Arbella Stuart - The Uncrowned Queen

Once Upon A Time in History: A St Loe Murder https://cupboardworld.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-st-loe-murderer.html

English Heritage: Bess of Hardwick https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/women-in-history/bess-of-hardwick/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bess_of_Hardwick#Death_and_burial



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3 weeks ago
56 minutes 2 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History
Queen Charlotte of Great Britain & Ireland (minisode)

Queen Charlotte was hand-picked King George 3rd to be his Queen, and she proved to be a good choice. Her steady sense of duty helped keep the Kingdom together when her husband was incapacitated and her subjects were restless. Recently made more famous thanks to the series ‘Bridgerton’ Charlotte was not unlike her character on the show - dignified and keen on protocol. However she loved her husband and was highly distressed at his ongoing illness.


Sources/Further Reading


Curzon, Catherine: The Real Queen Charlotte- Inside the Real Bridgerton Court

Hadlow, Janice: The Strangest Family - the private lives of George 3rd, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians

Worsley, Lucy: Courtiers, the Secret History of Kensington Palace

Finch, Barbara Clay: Lives of the Princesses of Wales https://archive.org/details/livesofprincesse02finc/page/284/mode/2up

Historic Royal Palaces: Queen Charlotte https://www.hrp.org.uk/kew-palace/history-and-stories/queen-charlotte/

Wikipedia: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_of_Mecklenburg-Strelitz



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1 month ago
25 minutes 2 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History
Queen Charlotte of Great Britain and Ireland

Queen Charlotte was hand-picked King George 3rd to be his Queen, and she proved to be a good choice. Her steady sense of duty helped keep the Kingdom together when her husband was incapacitated and her subjects were restless. Recently made more famous thanks to the series ‘Bridgerton’ Charlotte was not unlike her character on the show - dignified and keen on protocol. However she loved her husband and was highly distressed at his ongoing illness.


Sources/Further Reading


Curzon, Catherine: The Real Queen Charlotte- Inside the Real Bridgerton Court

Hadlow, Janice: The Strangest Family - the private lives of George 3rd, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians

Worsley, Lucy: Courtiers, the Secret History of Kensington Palace

Finch, Barbara Clay: Lives of the Princesses of Wales https://archive.org/details/livesofprincesse02finc/page/284/mode/2up

Historic Royal Palaces: Queen Charlotte https://www.hrp.org.uk/kew-palace/history-and-stories/queen-charlotte/

Wikipedia: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_of_Mecklenburg-Strelitz


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1 month ago
1 hour 4 minutes 28 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Socialite, Medical Pioneer and Traveller (minisode)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu lead an incredibly interesting life. As a young woman she eloped to marry for love, then spent time in the exotic court of the Ottoman Empire where she learnt about the process of smallpox inoculation. After introducing this medical success story to England, she separated from her husband to travel the continent, chasing down one man before settling in with another - and almost losing everything.


Grundy, Isobel: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Ward, Lucy: The Empress and the English Doctor - How Catherine the Great Defied a deadly virus

Willet, Jo: The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu, Scientist and Feminist 

The Grolier Society Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Letters: https://archive.org/details/ladymarywortleym0000mont/page/333/mode/1up

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Mary_Wortley_Montagu

Encyclopaedia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lady-Mary-Wortley-Montagu


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23 minutes 10 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Socialite, Medical Pioneer and Traveller

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu lead an incredibly interesting life. As a young woman she eloped to marry for love, then spent time in the exotic court of the Ottoman Empire where she learnt about the process of smallpox inoculation. After introducing this medical success story to England, she separated from her husband to travel the continent, chasing down one man before settling in with another - and almost losing everything.


Grundy, Isobel: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Ward, Lucy: The Empress and the English Doctor - How Catherine the Great Defied a deadly virus

Willet, Jo: The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu, Scientist and Feminist 

The Grolier Society Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Letters: https://archive.org/details/ladymarywortleym0000mont/page/333/mode/1up

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Mary_Wortley_Montagu

Encyclopaedia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lady-Mary-Wortley-Montagu



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1 month ago
1 hour 6 minutes 49 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History
Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly - More Than Victims of Jack the Ripper (Minisode)

Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly were all women who had fallen on hard times. Victims of the poverty and violence endemic in London’s East End, they were all vulnerable to the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper. However before they died, they all lived eventful lives and had people who loved them and greatly mourned their deaths.


Sources/Further Reading:

Rubenhold, Hallie: The Five - the Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Cornwall, Patricia: Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed

Casebook: Jack the Ripper https://www.casebook.org/intro.html

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Stride

Wikipedia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Eddowes

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jane_Kelly

Jack The Ripper. Org https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/victims-of-jack-the-ripper.htm


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1 month ago
22 minutes 48 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History
Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes & Mary Jane Kelly - More than Victims of Jack the Ripper

Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly were all women who had fallen on hard times. Victims of the poverty and violence endemic in London’s East End, they were all vulnerable to the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper. However before they died, they all lived eventful lives and had people who loved them and greatly mourned their deaths.


Sources/Further Reading:

Rubenhold, Hallie: The Five - the Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Cornwall, Patricia: Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed

Casebook: Jack the Ripper https://www.casebook.org/intro.html

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Stride

Wikipedia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Eddowes

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jane_Kelly

Jack The Ripper. Org https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/victims-of-jack-the-ripper.htm


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1 month ago
57 minutes 20 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History
Polly Nichols and Annie Chapman - More than Victims of Jack the Ripper (Minisode)

Polly Nichols and Annie Chapman are united in death as victims of the most famous cold-case of all time: the murders of Jack the Ripper. But they were more than just dead bodies - they had lives that deserve respect and families that grieved them. In this episode we look at the lives of two of the most famous murder victims in history.


Sources/Further Reading:

Rubenhold, Hallie: The Five - the Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Cornwall, Patricia: Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed

Casebook: Jack the Ripper https://www.casebook.org/intro.html

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Nichols

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Chapman

Jack The Ripper. Org https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/victims-of-jack-the-ripper.htm


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1 month ago
22 minutes 3 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History
Polly Nichols and Annie Chapman - More Than Victims of Jack the Ripper

Polly Nichols and Annie Chapman are united in death as victims of the most famous cold-case of all time: the murders of Jack the Ripper. But they were more than just dead bodies - they had lives that deserve respect and families that grieved them. In this episode we look at the lives of two of the most famous murder victims in history.


Sources/Further Reading:

Rubenhold, Hallie: The Five - the Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Cornwall, Patricia: Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed

Casebook: Jack the Ripper https://www.casebook.org/intro.html

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Nichols

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Chapman

Jack The Ripper. Org https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/victims-of-jack-the-ripper.htm


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1 month ago
45 minutes 22 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History
Mary Shelley (Minisode)

Mary Shelley was only 19 when she wrote one of the most popular and influential books in the English language - her novel Frankenstein continues to be a bestseller 200 years after its publication. Born the daughter of two famous radical thinkers, she was highly educated and intelligent, although the subject of several blackmail attempts in her later years. Her life was one of sorrow, she lost several children and was widowed young, however she was eventually able to make a living through her writing. This is the story of a woman who was unafraid of the restrictions of Georgian society, and who sacrificed a lot for love and for independence. 


Seymour, Miranda: Mary Shelley

Brittanica: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Wollstonecraft-Shelley

Wikipedia: Mary Shelley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication on the Rights of Women https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/wollstonecraft-mary/1792/vindication-rights-woman/introduction.htm

The Journals of Mary Shelley



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2 months ago
20 minutes 6 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History
Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley was only 19 when she wrote one of the most popular and influential books in the English language - her novel Frankenstein continues to be a bestseller 200 years after its publication. Born the daughter of two famous radical thinkers, she was highly educated and intelligent, although the subject of several blackmail attempts in her later years. Her life was one of sorrow, she lost several children and was widowed young, however she was eventually able to make a living through her writing. This is the story of a woman who was unafraid of the restrictions of Georgian society, and who sacrificed a lot for love and for independence. 


Seymour, Miranda: Mary Shelley

Brittanica: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Wollstonecraft-Shelley

Wikipedia: Mary Shelley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication on the Rights of Women https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/wollstonecraft-mary/1792/vindication-rights-woman/introduction.htm

The Journals of Mary Shelley



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2 months ago
1 hour 44 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History
Catherine the Great - the Star of the North (Minisode)

Catherine the Great saw an opportunity and she took it - to overthrow her husband and assume control for herself. But in many ways gaining the throne is the easy part - the hard part is keeping power. With the help of her capable and able generals and administrators, and her lover turned right hand man Gregory Potemkin, Catherine began to reform her adopted country and turn it into an international power.


Sources/Further Reading:

Massie, Robert K: Catherine the Great - Portrait of a Woman

Montefiore, Simon Sebag: Catherine the Great and Potemkin - Power Love and the Russian Empire

Ward, Lucy: The Empress and the English Doctor - how Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus

Simmons, Michael W: Catherine the Great - Last Empress of Russia

Britannica: Catherine the Great https://www.britannica.com/biography/Catherine-the-Great

Wikipedia: Catherine the Great https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great


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2 months ago
24 minutes 42 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History
Catherine the Great - the Star of the North

Catherine the Great saw an opportunity and she took it - to overthrow her husband and assume control for herself. But in many ways gaining the throne is the easy part - the hard part is keeping power. With the help of her capable and able generals and administrators, and her lover turned right hand man Gregory Potemkin, Catherine began to reform her adopted country and turn it into an international power.


Sources/Further Reading:

Massie, Robert K: Catherine the Great - Portrait of a Woman

Montefiore, Simon Sebag: Catherine the Great and Potemkin - Power Love and the Russian Empire

Ward, Lucy: The Empress and the English Doctor - how Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus

Simmons, Michael W: Catherine the Great - Last Empress of Russia

Britannica: Catherine the Great https://www.britannica.com/biography/Catherine-the-Great

Wikipedia: Catherine the Great https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great


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2 months ago
1 hour 7 minutes 20 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History
Catherine the Great - From German Princess to Russian Empress Part 1 (minisode)

Catherine the Great was not born into the Russian royal family - she wasn’t even born as Catherine. Her birth name was Sophie, and she was raised in a small German principality that was no different to the many hundreds of other small countries and states that made up the Holy Roman Empire. How she ended up as the most powerful woman in Europe is a fascinating story.


Sources/Further Reading:

Massie, Robert K: Catherine the Great - Portrait of a Woman

Montefiore, Simon Sebag: Catherine the Great and Potemkin - Power Love and the Russian Empire

Ward, Lucy: The Empress and the English Doctor - how Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus

Simmons, Michael W: Catherine the Great - Last Empress of Russia

Britannica: Catherine the Great https://www.britannica.com/biography/Catherine-the-Great

Wikipedia: Catherine the Great https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great


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2 months ago
22 minutes 53 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History
Catherine the Great - From German Princess to Russian Empress Episode 1

Catherine the Great was not born into the Russian royal family - she wasn’t even born as Catherine. Her birth name was Sophie, and she was raised in a small German principality that was no different to the many hundreds of other small countries and states that made up the Holy Roman Empire. How she ended up as the most powerful woman in Europe is a fascinating story.


Sources/Further Reading:

Massie, Robert K: Catherine the Great - Portrait of a Woman

Montefiore, Simon Sebag: Catherine the Great and Potemkin - Power Love and the Russian Empire

Ward, Lucy: The Empress and the English Doctor - how Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus

Simmons, Michael W: Catherine the Great - Last Empress of Russia

Britannica: Catherine the Great https://www.britannica.com/biography/Catherine-the-Great

Wikipedia: Catherine the Great https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great


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2 months ago
49 minutes 42 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History
Lucretia Jans and the Murderous Wreck of the Batavia (Minisode)

Please note this episode contains information about violence including murder, rape and the killing of children. It’s a fascinating but very chilling episode in history.


In the 17th Century the Dutch Republic ruled the waves. The Dutch East India Company, known as the VOC, controlled the spice trade out of the East Indies (Indonesia) and made enormous profits. In 1628 a ship left Amsterdam bound for the trading town of Batavia, modern Jakarta. Also called Batavia, the ship was wrecked off the west coast of Australia, and what followed was six months of murder and horror for the survivors.

One of these survivors was Lucretia Jans, a 28 year old woman travelling to Batavia to join up with her husband. Her story, and how she managed to survive the months trapped with a murderous psychopath, is remarkable - but also terrifying.


Sources/Further reading (and listening)

Dash, Mike: Batavia’s Graveyard - The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led Histories Bloodiest Mutiny

Fitzsimons, Peter: Batavia - Betrayal. Shipwreck. Murder. Sexual Slavery. Courage. A Spine Chilling Chapter in Australian History.

Online Dictionary of Dutch Women: Jans, Lucretia https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Jans,%20Lucretia/en

Western Australian Museum: Batavia’s History https://museum.wa.gov.au/research/research-areas/maritime-archaeology/batavia-cape-inscription/batavia

Board, Roger W: The brutal events on Houtman Abrolhos following the wreckof the Batavia in 1629

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/RogerByard/publication/342848799_The_brutal_events_on_Houtman_Abrolhos_following_the_wreck_of_the_Batavia_in_1629/links/5f1803fd45851515ef3e4700/The-brutal-events-on-Houtman-Abrolhos-following-the-wreck-of-the-Batavia-in-1629.pdf

Wyatt, Red: The Shipwreck of the Batavia: A Tale of Mutiny and Murder https://historycollection.com/shipwreck-batavia-tale-mutiny-murder/

Milligan, Mark: Heritage Daily - New Horrors Unravelled in the Story of the Batavia Shipwreck https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/05/new-horrors-unravelled-in-the-story-of-the-batavia-shipwreck/147258

Wikipedia: Lucretia Jans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia_Jans

Wikipedia: Batavia (1628 Ship) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_(1628_ship)


Podcasts

Dark Histories - The Disturbing Kingdom of Batavia’s Graveyard

Casefile - Case 138: The Batavia

Most Notorious - The 1629 Batavia Mutiny & Massacre w/ Mike Dash

Not Just The Tudors - Batavia: The Worst Shipwreck in History


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2 months ago
22 minutes 39 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History
Lucretia Jans and the Murderous Wreck of the Batavia

Please note this episode contains information about violence including murder, rape and the killing of children. It’s a fascinating but very chilling episode in history.


In the 17th Century the Dutch Republic ruled the waves. The Dutch East India Company, known as the VOC, controlled the spice trade out of the East Indies (Indonesia) and made enormous profits. In 1628 a ship left Amsterdam bound for the trading town of Batavia, modern Jakarta. Also called Batavia, the ship was wrecked off the west coast of Australia, and what followed was six months of murder and horror for the survivors.

One of these survivors was Lucretia Jans, a 28 year old woman travelling to Batavia to join up with her husband. Her story, and how she managed to survive the months trapped with a murderous psychopath, is remarkable - but also terrifying.


Sources/Further reading (and listening)

Dash, Mike: Batavia’s Graveyard - The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led Histories Bloodiest Mutiny

Fitzsimons, Peter: Batavia - Betrayal. Shipwreck. Murder. Sexual Slavery. Courage. A Spine Chilling Chapter in Australian History.

Online Dictionary of Dutch Women: Jans, Lucretia https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Jans,%20Lucretia/en

Western Australian Museum: Batavia’s History https://museum.wa.gov.au/research/research-areas/maritime-archaeology/batavia-cape-inscription/batavia

Board, Roger W: The brutal events on Houtman Abrolhos following the wreckof the Batavia in 1629

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/RogerByard/publication/342848799_The_brutal_events_on_Houtman_Abrolhos_following_the_wreck_of_the_Batavia_in_1629/links/5f1803fd45851515ef3e4700/The-brutal-events-on-Houtman-Abrolhos-following-the-wreck-of-the-Batavia-in-1629.pdf

Wyatt, Red: The Shipwreck of the Batavia: A Tale of Mutiny and Murder https://historycollection.com/shipwreck-batavia-tale-mutiny-murder/

Milligan, Mark: Heritage Daily - New Horrors Unravelled in the Story of the Batavia Shipwreck https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/05/new-horrors-unravelled-in-the-story-of-the-batavia-shipwreck/147258

Wikipedia: Lucretia Jans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia_Jans

Wikipedia: Batavia (1628 Ship) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_(1628_ship)


Podcasts

Dark Histories - The Disturbing Kingdom of Batavia’s Graveyard

Casefile - Case 138: The Batavia

Most Notorious - The 1629 Batavia Mutiny & Massacre w/ Mike Dash

Not Just The Tudors - Batavia: The Worst Shipwreck in History


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2 months ago
1 hour 3 minutes 5 seconds

Matilda’s Top Women In History

Let’s learn about some fascinating women in history



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