Heroine City is a bi-weekly podcast championing women in history. Placing women back into the history books with historian guests, our host, Lynsey Shaw is on a mission to shine a light on fascinating underrepresented narratives and revisit those deserving a fresh look. Research and scholarly work underpin the discussion of women's stories that demand to be told. They and YOU are the bricks that build Heroine City.
Find out about our work and everything happening inside Heroine City at https://heroinecity.com.
If you are an historian with work that you would like to share, a heritage site the would like to collaborate, or a listener with a suggestion on a subject for us to feature, please get in touch with us at hello@heroinecity,com.
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Heroine City is a bi-weekly podcast championing women in history. Placing women back into the history books with historian guests, our host, Lynsey Shaw is on a mission to shine a light on fascinating underrepresented narratives and revisit those deserving a fresh look. Research and scholarly work underpin the discussion of women's stories that demand to be told. They and YOU are the bricks that build Heroine City.
Find out about our work and everything happening inside Heroine City at https://heroinecity.com.
If you are an historian with work that you would like to share, a heritage site the would like to collaborate, or a listener with a suggestion on a subject for us to feature, please get in touch with us at hello@heroinecity,com.
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Heroine City host Lynsey Shaw talks with English Heritage’s brilliant curator of collections and interiors, Dr. Tessa Kilgarriff about the life of Henrietta Howard (1689-1767). In episode nineteen they discuss the life of the eighteenth-century intellectual wit, builder of the Palladian style Marble Hill in Twickenham and mistress to King George II. Henrietta had a riches to rags to riches life that showed her determination, resourcefulness and tenacity in the face of an abusive husband and forced estrangement from her only child.
Tessa and Lynsey discuss the nuance in the life of a woman whose legacy goes way beyond the one role she played in the Hanoverian royal household.
Warning: Contains discussion of domestic abuse.
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