We are Bess

Bess' life has much to say to us today about operating as a woman in a man’s world, the way many experiences of women transcend time, and about how we talk and think about women. And while there has been much progress in many ways, attitudes to women and their experiences are not so very different as they were in her lifetime.

Working with Dr Suzannah Lipscomb, historian  from the University of Roehampton, author and broadcaster, and Dr Emma Turnbull, research fellow at the University of Oxford, We are Bess will retell her story to try to overturn this perpetuated misogynistic narrative, a deeply unfair legacy and misrepresentation of her character.