Let’s learn about some fascinating women in history
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Let’s learn about some fascinating women in history
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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
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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