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Practical Magic: Spells, Prayers & Cunning Folk
Episode 376
Long before witch trials, magic was the domain of ‘cunning folk’ who were part of the fabric of medieval and early modern life. Their charms, filters…
1 year, 10 months ago
Leonardo da Vinci with Ken Burns
Episode 375
Leonardo da Vinci was a man like no other. A restless visionary and polymath, his paintings are some of the best known of all works of art.
To talk ab…
1 year, 10 months ago
Witchfinder General
Episode 374
In the aftermath of the Civil War, a remote corner of Essex witnessed the most brutally devastating witch-hunt in English history. A dangerous maveri…
1 year, 10 months ago
Invisible Activists of the Reformation
Episode 373
The names that spring first to mind in the Reformation of Christianity tend always to be male. But women were central to these extraordinary transfo…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Witch
Episode 372
Join Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Professor Ronald Hutton as they explore the evolving definitions of witches, the global spread of witch beliefs,…
1 year, 10 months ago
Fireworks: From the Tudors to Guy Fawkes
Episode 371
A pyrotechnic dragon roared flames into the river Thames during the coronation week of Elizabeth of York in 1487. These explosive displays were emplo…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Brutal Basque Witch Hunt
Episode 370
In 1609, some 80 people were executed for witchcraft in France's Basque region. It inspired a final push to eradicate witches by the Spanish Inquisi…
1 year, 10 months ago
Africans in 17th Century England
Episode 369
In the 1640s, Black communities existed in London and in most of England's port cities, communities from which men would fight and die throughout the…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Tudor World at Hampton Court
Episode 368
The oldest surviving part of Hampton Court Palace is a series of chambers and closets built in the 1520s for Henry VIII's chief advisor and Lord Chan…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Spanish Armada
Episode 367
In July 1588 the Spanish Armada set sail to conquer England. Three weeks later a fierce naval battle foiled the planned invasion. Many myths surrou…
1 year, 11 months ago