Hey guys, welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network, and the original Tudor History podcast, celebrating Tudor history for 15 years you guys it was labor day

weekend 2009 that I posted the very first episode of this podcast so we are coming up on 15 years

of podcasting which is kind of crazy I was going to say I don't know that I've done 15 years of

anything but I have been married

longer than 15 years. So there is that. But I haven't lived anywhere for 15 years or longer.

So I don't know, pretty crazy, pretty crazy. So I am your host, Heather. I'm a storyteller

who makes history accessible because I believe

it's a pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the universe, and being much more deeply

in touch with our own humanity. This is episode 248, I believe. And you know what? We're actually

going to go and talk about something that we talked a little bit about during women's history

month. And that was the role of the Reformation on women. And basically what women were doing

during the religious changes of the 16th century and how that affected. Now, the reason why we're

going to talk about that is I have been reading Philippa Gregory's book, Normal Women,

which is really, really good. And it's basically about how, you know, what we're normal women

doing from the period from 1066 up to, I think

it goes up to just after the Civil War, kind of 18th century-ish. And, you know, this is because,

of course, it was men writing the history. Women weren't out in the public sphere as much,

although many were, but the men who were writing about it,

well, they weren't writing about it. So there was that. And so this book has been really interesting

for me. So I have to say, I have a bit of a complicated relationship with Philippa Gregory.

Because on one hand, you know, I read the other Berlin girl back in 2000 and, gosh, was it

2003, 2004, something like that when it first came out. I remember. So here's a personal

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