A Woman's Place?

A Woman's Place?

A Woman’s Place ? ® is a long-term project undertaken by English historian Paul Wiltshire and retired academic Gillian Elias, both of whom are based in Nottingham, England. They have previously presented under the name “Wiltshire Rose English Treasures”. The project explored and brought to life, the remarkable achievements of 14 women who lived and worked between the 6th and 20th centuries, a period of 1400 years. The research has teased out the significant contribution which each of these women made to the times in which they lived and the legacies which they bestowed upon England and the English. There are examples of extraordinary courage and resolution by women who found themselves in difficult and sometimes dangerous situations. The research also considered the roles played by men who supported, promoted and helped the women featured in the podcasts.

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January 30, 2025 39 mins
Our first podcast offers a description of the project entitled ‘A Woman’s Place ‘?®.  It also features historical accounts of two remarkable women who were thrust into the limelight during the early years of the Anglo-Saxon age.  The first subject is Saint Hilda of Whitby and the second, Saint Bertha of Kent: both played significant roles in christianising the pagan Anglo-Saxons, which served eventually to unify the disparate and f...
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Our second podcast features two outstanding Anglo-Saxons, who have been described as the most significant and important people ever born in England.  The material discusses the incredible stories of Aethelflaed Lady of the Mercians and her brother King Edward the Elder.  Both were children of Alfred the Great and in the 10th century, they formed a devastating partnership, with the intention of retaking large swathes of territory fr...
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March 14, 2025 47 mins
Listen to an account of two women who led remarkable lives despite the fact that both were married to very difficult men namely William the Conqueror and England’s first Plantagenet king, Henry II… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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This outstanding woman became Queen of England during her early teens.  Almost immediately after her accession, she faced rejection and humiliation at the hands of her feckless husband King Edward II and his male companions.  In later centuries, she was condemned on the assumption that she had been party to the murder of her husband and the usurping of his throne.  Modern historians have proposed that Edward II was probably not mur...
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Practical, extremely courageous and tough to the core, Lady Margaret Beaufort suffered greatly and sacrificed much of her life for the benefit of her only child who became King Henry VII, England’s first Tudor monarch.  By the age of 13, Margaret was a mother and a widow.  Prior to the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, she was at risk of execution by different Kings of England.  Gillian and Paul describe the very dramatic story of Margar...
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This impulsive, emotional and occasionally outrageous woman, remains one of England’s most under-reported and undervalued writers.  Her 18th century works spoke up for the women and children who were excluded from society on account of their impoverishment or gender.  You will hear Paul and Gillian describe the story of Mary’s struggle for acceptance and recognition, which is uplifting, tragic and comical in equal measure. Learn mo...
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