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Episode 344 - Bess of Hardwick: An Elizabethan Magnate with Dr Wyn Derbyshire

Talking Tudors by Natalie Grueninger

May 11, 202633:13Society & Culture

Host Natalie Grueninger interviews Dr Wyn Derbyshire about the remarkable life of Bess of Hardwick — her uncertain origins, four marriages, sharp business sense, and rise to becoming the second-richest woman in England....

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