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Morning Twitter, I have some great things to tell you about.
First up: #WeAreBess - a brand-new exhibition opening today @NThardwick (Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire), designed to make us think anew about both Tudor and modern women
First up: #WeAreBess - a brand-new exhibition opening today @NThardwick (Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire), designed to make us think anew about both Tudor and modern women
Bess of Hardwick was an extraordinary success for a woman living in the Tudor period - she built 4 homes, married 4 times, and became the 2nd richest woman in the country after Elizabeth I - but she's been defamed throughout history
We remember her chiefly by what her estranged & embittered 4th husband said about her, which wasn't very nice - but historians have repeated these judgments through the centuries. It was time for a reappraisal based on evidence of her character.
