The Extraordinary Story of Dido Belle: Unlikely Georgian Heiress | Stitch In Time

Fusing biography, art, and the history of fashion, Amber Butchart explores the lives of historical figures through the clothes they wore. She looks at Dido Belle, the 18th-century daughter of an enslaved West Indian woman brought up at Kenwood House in London.

29 min - History - Absolute History

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