The 15 Minute Book Club · Alex Churchill, Matt Bone
History Hack: Women Who Served Tudor Queens
June 10, 2024·41 min·4 clips
Why no one had ever compiled a list of Henry VIII's queens' ladies-in-waiting until now.
As heard by us
A careful recovery of Maria, Catherine of Aragon's Spanish woman, and the archive gaps that obscured her.
History Hack traces Nicola Clarke, a senior lecturer in early modern history at the University of Chichester, as she pieces together Maria, a Spanish woman in Catherine of Aragon's orbit, and follows her movement between Spanish and English records.
Why you'd press play
You want the bit of Tudor history where a footnote opens a whole life.
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