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Harriet Martineau: life of the week

HistoryExtra podcast

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Thinker, feminist, sociologist, campaigner: 19th-century writer Harriet Martineau was a pioneer and a radical across a huge range of areas, but it's very likely you've never heard of her. Stuart Hobday tells Matt Elton about a figure who played a key role in shaping the modern world – and wasn't afraid to ruffle some feathers along the way. ----- GO BEYOND THE PODCAST Read more about radical women who shaped the modern world in HistoryExtra's extensive collection of articles and podcasts: https://bit.ly/4rt2sie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Thinker, feminist, sociologist, campaigner.

0:57.4

19th century writer Harriet Martineau was a pioneer and a radical across a huge range of areas.

1:04.5

But it's very likely that you've never heard of her.

1:07.6

In this episode of the History Extra podcast, Stuart Hobday tells Matt Elton about a figure

1:13.5

who played a key role in shaping the modern worlds and wasn't afraid to ruffle some feathers

1:18.7

along the way. Stuart, thank you so much for being with us on the History Extra podcast today.

1:24.7

We are here to talk about someone who, and this is a bit of a confession right

1:28.6

at the top from me, despite me having studied sociology for a fair number of years, I had not

1:34.0

heard about until fairly recently. Can you just in a very brief nutshell talk about who we're

1:39.2

going to be covering today? We're talking about Harriet Martineau. I've written a couple of books

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