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Murder in the Stuart Court
Episode 289
The public fascination with true crime is nothing new. Four centuries ago, the sensational story of the death in the Tower of London of Thomas Overbu…
2 years, 3 months ago
Trading British Brides for American Tobacco
Episode 288
In 1621 the Virginia Company of London put out a call for young, handsome and honestly educated women to become wives for the planters in its new col…
2 years, 3 months ago
15th Century Puritan Fanatic, Savonarola
Episode 287
Girolamo Savonarola was a late 15th century Dominican friar who rose to become a preacher, prophet, and politician. He took on the corruption of the …
2 years, 3 months ago
How to Survive in Tudor England
Episode 286
Life in Tudor England was risky. In addition to the outbreaks of plague, the threat of poverty and the dangers of childbirth, there were social risks…
2 years, 4 months ago
Elizabeth I's Spymaster, Walsingham
Episode 285
For anyone studying the politics of the 1570s-80s, it would be hard to avoid Elizabeth I’s ‘spymaster’ Sir Francis Walsingham, who seemingly rose fro…
2 years, 4 months ago
Princes in the Tower: The Tudor Pretenders?
Episode 284
The unsolved mystery of what happened to the Princes in the Tower - Edward V and Richard, Duke of York - is possibly English history’s greatest cold …
2 years, 4 months ago
Tudors in Love
Episode 283
From Henry VIII declaring himself as the ‘loyal and most assured servant’ of Anne Boleyn to the poems lavished on Elizabeth I by her suitors, the dra…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Black Medici Prince of Florence
Episode 282
In the cut-throat world of Renaissance Florence, Alessandro - the illegitimate son of a Duke and a mixed-race servant - attempts to reassert the Medi…
2 years, 4 months ago
Tudor Ghosts and Angels
Episode 281
To this day, the presence of angels is synonymous with the Christmas story and the momentous events associated with the Nativity. For the Tudors and …
2 years, 4 months ago
How the Elizabethan World Shaped Shakespeare
Episode 280
We think of Shakespeare as a man out of time. His stories and characters, his capturing of human nature, and his exquisite use of language, continue …
2 years, 4 months ago