Hidden Histories: The New Statesman History Podcast

By: The New Statesman
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  • Welcome to Hidden Histories, hosted by Helen Lewis. In each series we explore a subject that the textbooks hid, held-back or hijacked, starting with “The Great Forgetting: women writers before Austen”. For more, head to newstatesman.com/podcast.

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Episodes
  • HH #1.6: The Great Forgetting

    HH #1.6: The Great Forgetting
    May 18 2016
    Welcome to the final episode of our Hidden Histories series - The Great Forgetting: women writers before Austen. This week, Helen Lewis, Sophie Coulombeau and Liz Edwards discuss why so many of the era’s female writers are absent from the canon, why we think what we say is good is good, and how these writers still shape our idea of literature today? (Helen Lewis, Sophie Coulombeau, Liz Edwards)

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    30 mins
  • HH #1.5: Fight Club

    HH #1.5: Fight Club
    May 13 2016
    Welcome to the Hidden Histories podcast. This week, Helen Lewis and our guests Sophie Coulombeau, Liz Edwards and Jennie Batchelor thrash out the impossible question: Who is the most interesting female writer of the Eighteenth Century? Liz chooses Hester Thrale Piozzi, Sophie makes the case for Frances Burney, and Jennie opts for the elusive Anonymous.

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    33 mins
  • HH #1.4: Unsex'd females

    HH #1.4: Unsex'd females
    May 4 2016
    In this episode, Helen Lewis is joined by Sophie Coulombeau and Jennie Batchelor to discuss 18th century women’s involvement in radical politics. Novelists and poets from Charlotte Smith to Anna Letitia Barbau and Mary Wollstonecraft all engaged with major political questions of their day. But not everyone was confident this was a good idea.

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    36 mins

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