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Episode 353 - Marie Maitland: Scotland's 16th‑Century Sappho with Dr Ashley Douglas
Episode 386
Host Natalie Grueninger welcomes Dr Ashley Douglas to discuss her new book, 'With My Own Hand: The Secret Life of Marie Maitland, Scotland's Sixteent…
1 day, 1 hour ago
Episode 352 - The Accounts of Thomas Boleyn: A Revealing Window into 1526 with Natalie Grueninger & Dr Owen Emmerson
Episode 385
Host Natalie Grueninger and Dr Owen Emmerson examine Thomas Boleyn’s November–December 1526 financial accounts, revealing the family’s substantial la…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Episode 351 - Rethinking Anne of Cleves with Dr Valerie Schutte
Episode 384
In this episode Natalie Grueninger interviews Dr Valerie Schutte about her upcoming cultural biography of Anne of Cleves. They re-examine long-standi…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Episode 350 - Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' with Cait Murphy-Hurrell
Episode 383
Natalie Grueninger interviews Cait Murphy-Hurrell about Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene', exploring the poem's rich allegory, its portrayal of vi…
1 month ago
Episode 349 - The Life & Works of Erasmus with Amy McElroy
Episode 382
Host Natalie Grueninger interviews historian Amy McElroy about Desiderius Erasmus, exploring his mysterious early life, education, travels across Eur…
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 348 - A New History of Tudor England with Professor Nandini Das
Episode 381
Professor Nandini Das explores how Tudor and Stuart England were shaped by movement, exchange, and diverse individuals—artists, scholars, missionarie…
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 347 - Rethinking the Wives of Henry VIII with Jessica Carey-Bunning
Episode 380
Host Natalie Grueninger talks with historian Jessica Carey-Bunning about her book 'The Wives of Henry VIII', presenting fresh archival research and n…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Episode 346 - Anne Boleyn: Reputation, Revolution, Religion with Martha Tatarnic
Episode 379
Natalie Grueninger interviews Martha Tatarnic about her new book on Anne Boleyn, exploring how Anne shaped the English Reformation, championed the En…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Queen Anne Boleyn's Imprisonment Through the Eyes of William Kingston with Natalie Grueninger & Dr Owen Emmerson
Episode 378
Natalie Grueninger is in conversation with Dr Owen Emmerson about five surviving letters written by William Kingston during Anne Boleyn’s imprisonmen…
2 months ago
Episode 344 - Bess of Hardwick: An Elizabethan Magnate with Dr Wyn Derbyshire
Episode 377
Host Natalie Grueninger interviews Dr Wyn Derbyshire about the remarkable life of Bess of Hardwick — her uncertain origins, four marriages, sharp bus…
2 months, 1 week ago