Ladies of Lore

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a lovely festive break and are feeling ready to take on 2026! I entered the new year with a bad cold which is not what you want to hear on the podcast. 
My loss is your gain though, and I am gifting you an episode of the Patreon Exclusive series 'Heroines of History', this one is all about Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII. 
Here's a list of my sources that you can access, the rest were found via my university library: 
https://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/history-and-stories/katherine-of-aragon/#gs.nrhdca
https://www.historyextra.com/period/tudor/catherine-aragon-facts-henry-viii-first-wife-mother-death-mary-buried/
https://tudortimes.co.uk/people/katharine-of-aragon-life-story
https://www.thoughtco.com/catherine-of-aragon-marriage-to-henry-viii-3528151
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This is a special episode originally created as a Patreon exclusive as part of the ongoing 'Ladies of Advent' series.
In this opening episode of 'Ladies of Advent' we start with Our Lady of Guadalupe. The divine mother who appeared in 1531 on a cold hilltop outside of Mexico City. She would go on to become a sacred figure in Catholic devotion as well as a symbol of strength, identity and protection for women, indigenous people and revolutionaries.
I really hope you enjoy it! 

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Trigger Warning: Pregnancy Loss
In this episode, we drink deep and dive in to the world of Florence & The Machine’s Everybody Scream. An album that fuses mythology, witchcraft, trauma, and feminine power. We explore how Florence Welch channels the voices of witches, mystics, monsters and takes us on a pilgrimage through grief and transformation, through the scream buried in every woman’s throat.
All music Courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com

Cool Stuff Mentioned In This Episode:  
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/30/1259372801/florence-welch-everybody-scream-interview-transcript
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/florence-welch-new-album-everybody-scream-interview-1235456844/
https://www.music-news.com/news/UK/185154/Florence-Welch-I-think-I-was-still-processing-what-happened-to-me-and-I-had-a-level-of-PTSD
https://podcasts.musixmatch.com/podcast/the-zane-lowe-interview-series-01gxz24x40p85bgw5q4kyk8361/episode/florence-the-machine-01gxz24x40p85bgw5q4kyk837k
https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/florence-welch-quotes
https://impossiblethingsb4breakfast.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/a-lyrical-review-of-florence-the-machine’s-“ceremonials”/
https://culture.affinitymagazine.us/florence-and-the-machines-high-as-hope-a-track-by-track-analysis/
https://epigram.org.uk/untitled-249/
https://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2015/06/03/florence-the-machine-how-big-how-blue-how-beautiful-island/
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52958
https://www.worldhistory.org/Yemoja/
https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/underworld/mictlan-and-its-inhabitants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqbBrAzSodY&t=45s
https://cac.org/daily-meditations/julian-of-norwich-part-i-the-mystic-in-the-anchor-hold-2015-07-20/
https://www.thecollector.com/who-was-margery-kempe-medieval-mystic/

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It has been a while, I missed you! 
Here's a little mini episode for you all about the women who weave the fate of the world and all who live in it. 
Excited to be back and ready to start bringing you some more amazing stories of wonderful women. 
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I'm back! I took some time off to have a birthday, but I am back and ready to talk about some more amazing women! In light of the changing of the seasons, this week we are talking about women of the harvest from across the world! We're talking Demeter, Ceres, Pachamama, Zemyna and more. 

Cool Stuff Mentioned In This Episode: 
https://mythlok.com/pachamama/
https://basketmakersassociation.org.uk/whats-on/straw-work-and-corn-dollies-an-introduction/
https://www.strawcraftsmen.co.uk/cdolly.php
https://www.ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk/weaving-tradition-and-ritual-with-rural-corn-dollies/
https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/gods/goddess-of-the-month-chicomecoatl
https://littlewomen.medium.com/mother-earth-in-lithuanian-myths-and-legends-d604069ea62f
https://archive.org/details/greekreligion0000burk/page/n3/mode/2up
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Homeric_Hymn_to_Demeter.html?id=9gkkDkThbKAC&redir_esc=y
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