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Royal Favourites: James I and George Villiers
Episode 529
How did a relatively humble gentleman become the most powerful man in Stuart England?
Few figures embodied the glamour and instability of the Jacobean…
6 hours ago
Hoaxes and Lies in the Enlightenment
Episode 528
How did a ghost story bring London to a standstill? Was it a haunting, a fraud, or something even more revealing about Georgian society? Why did rati…
4 days, 6 hours ago
Royal Favourites: Robert Dudley, Elizabeth I's Forbidden Love
Episode 527
Passion, scandal, and power collided in the tumultuous relationship between Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley. Rumours of secret trysts between them set …
1 week ago
Anne of Cleves: New Discoveries
Episode 526
What if Henry VIII’s “discarded bride” actually showed real promise as queen?
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Dr James Taffe to discuss new d…
1 week, 4 days ago
Francisco de Cuéllar: Spanish Armada Captain
Episode 525
How did a condemned Spanish Armada captain survive shipwreck, betrayal, and war to leave behind one of the most extraordinary first-person accounts o…
2 weeks ago
Anne Boleyn at Hever Castle
Episode 524
What was Anne Boleyn like before she became the most controversial queen in English history? Can the rooms and gardens at her childhood home reveal m…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Maria Theresa, Habsburg Empress
Episode 523
How did a woman rise to power, and keep it, in the fiercely male-dominated Habsburg Empire?
From her distrust of the Enlightenment to her religious in…
3 weeks ago
Elizabethans in India
Episode 522
How did England’s earliest travellers to India try to win favour in a Mughal golden age that scarcely noticed them?
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb speaks…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Lady Jane Grey
Episode 521
What if becoming queen was the worst thing that could happen to you? What if the crown became your death sentence?
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb explore…
4 weeks ago
Grace O'Malley, Ireland's Pirate Queen
Episode 520
She cut off her hair to sail the seas. She divorced her husband by locking him out of his own castle. And when her son was killed by the occupying En…
1 month ago