Kickass Tudor Women is a Lyceum original production. You can listen to it exclusively on the

Himalaya app, available for download on the app store or Google Play. Hello and welcome to the first

episode of the Kickass Tudor Women Audio Course. My name is Heather Tesco, and for those of you

who don't know me, I started a podcast called the Renaissance English History podcast way back in 2009, and I've been telling stories for the past

11 years about my favorite time period in history.

I also created the world's first tutor con.

I run an online community at tutor learning circle.com.

I write books, lead tours, and more.

So that's a little bit about who I am.

As this course goes on, I'll share more about myself and I'll also want to hear from you.

What are you getting from learning about these women? Which ones would you add that I didn't include?

I look forward to your comments and thoughts here in the Lyceum app. So let's first talk about women in the historical

narrative. There are a lot of reasons why women don't make it into the historical narrative as

much as they might. One big reason is that most of the documents we have that tell the story of

history are related to government. And of course, that's a place where women didn't

participate that much there are however places where we can gather information

about women one area is household expenses which would have been managed largely

by women Elizabeth of York Henry the 8th's mother's privy purse expenses are all

available for the last year of her life,

which gives us insight into what was important to her and how her household was run.

Women also appear in court cases from time to time like Bess of Hardwick, who will talk about

later a woman who continually fought for what she was owed, and that can give us insight into

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