The REAL Bridgerton: Historians React To Season 3

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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*SPOILER ALERT: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS DETAILS OF SEASON 3 OF BRIDGERTON*

With the second part of season 3 of Bridgerton dropping on Netflix in the last few days, Kate is joined by Catherine Curzon, author of Inside the World of Bridgerton: True Stories of Regency High Society, to break down how it stands up to historical accuracies of the era.

How does season 3 match the historical goings on of the time? How did gossip become a form of power for women? Especially in a society that didn't allow them a voice in other areas of life. And who was the real Lady Whistledown?

Also, if you'd like to find out more about this incredible period, you can watch Kate present a two-part documentary - Georgian Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll: Unbuttoning Bridgerton - over on History Hit. Simply click here for a free 14 day trial and watch now.

This episode was edited by Tom Delargy, the producer was Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.

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0:00.0	Dearest gentle listener, today I have something very special for you.
0:10.0	You may have heard that London's fashionable set of returned for the new series of Bridgerton.
0:16.8	You've seen their love stories, watched their decadent parties,
0:21.1	and you've met the Royals and High Society darlings. But today we're
0:27.5	stripping back all the televised glamour and finding out about the real
0:32.2	Bridgeton.
0:33.0	Sex, drugs and celebrities in 18th century Britain.
0:38.0	From the real life dating taboos in the Georgian period...
0:41.0	This thing that if you had one dance with a man at a ball that's fine. Two
0:46.0	dances signaled you were getting close. Three dancers you may as well be married because
0:51.2	everyone was going to be like whoa, to partying and letting loose.
0:55.2	So these glitzy sort of ornate gas-lit drinking venues that sprang up in cities around the country where you don't sit down with
1:05.4	your pals and have a drink you're standing at the bar and you're having shots of
1:09.7	gin. The it girls and boys of the time.
1:13.0	So Lord Byron is basically a rock star of his day.
1:17.0	And of course, it wouldn't be Bridgeton without all the steamy sex.
1:22.0	There starts to be the production of animal gut condoms.
1:25.6	They were reusable, not forever, but certainly for multiple times.
1:30.2	I'll also be uncovering this titillating time period over on the History Hit website too for a two-part documentary series.
1:37.3	You'll see me taking off those gorgeous Bridgeton rose-tinted glasses and exploring the gritty underbelly of sex drugs and rock and
1:44.3	roll in Georgia Britain.
1:45.9	Click the link in the description to sign up for a 14-day free trial.
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