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Women Pirates of the Caribbean
Episode 334
Anne Bonny and Mary Read were pirates who sailed the Caribbean in the early 18th century. For both of them, piracy offered a chance at a freedom othe…
2 years, 2 months ago
Six Wives: Katherine Howard
Episode 333
Six wives - six lives that we think we know everything about. But beyond their mostly doomed marriages to Henry VIII and, in most cases, tragic ends…
2 years, 2 months ago
Legendary Woman Samurai: Hosokawa Gracia
Episode 332
Toda Mariko, or Mariko-san, one of the main characters from the new TV series Shogun - adapted from James Clavell's epic novel - is based on a real w…
2 years, 2 months ago
Six Wives: Anne of Cleves
Episode 331
Six wives - six lives that we think we know everything about. But beyond their mostly doomed marriages to Henry VIII and, in most cases, tragic ends,…
2 years, 3 months ago
Shakespeare's Players: Burbage and Kempe
Episode 330
Among the male players who performed thousands of new plays in the Elizabethan repertory, the most famous were Richard Burbage and Will Kempe, member…
2 years, 3 months ago
Six Wives: Jane Seymour
Episode 329
Six wives - six lives that we think we know everything about. But beyond their mostly doomed marriages to Henry VIII and, in most cases, tragic ends…
2 years, 3 months ago
A Tudor Mystery: The Girl Who Could Be Queen
Episode 328
This episode solves the 400-year old mystery of a previously unknown portrait of a young woman, dressed to look just like Queen Elizabeth herself.
Whe…
2 years, 3 months ago
Six Wives: Anne Boleyn
Episode 327
Six wives - six lives that we think we know everything about. But beyond their mostly doomed marriages to Henry VIII and, in most cases, tragic ends,…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Preacher Too Radical for Luther
Episode 326
The mid-15th to mid-16th centuries in Europe was an era of political, social, and religious unrest, when the Roman Catholic Church was being question…
2 years, 3 months ago
Female Spies in the 17th Century
Episode 325
If you think that the female spy is a 20th century phenomenon - be it Mata Hari, Mrs Zigzag or Eve Polastri - think again! Accounts of numerous 17th…
2 years, 3 months ago