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Tudor Ladies-in-Waiting
Episode 306
For every Tudor Queen, their ladies-in-waiting were their confidantes, chaperones and intimate witnesses to their lives. These women were high born, …
2 years, 5 months ago
Diary of a Tudor Gentlewoman
Episode 305
Diaries written by gentlewomen in the mid-16th century are hard to find. Yet, they lived through an age of upheaval as old ways were effaced in prefe…
2 years, 6 months ago
Trial of Charles I
Episode 304
In the mid-17th century, King Charles I of England was put on trial for treason against the sovereign state. Such a process involved a singular dete…
2 years, 6 months ago
How to Live Like a Stuart Aristocrat
Episode 303
After the Restoration of the Monarchy, the upper classes took their cues from court life - its entertainments, costumes, food and leisure pursuits. T…
2 years, 6 months ago
Jane Seymour: Henry VIII’s Third Queen
Episode 302
Jane Seymour is a paradox. Of Henry VIII’s six wives, she is the one about whom we know perhaps the least. She was the most lowly of the queens, but …
2 years, 6 months ago
Adventures of a Mughal Princess
Episode 301
In the British Library, there is a manuscript copy of the memoir of Princess Gulbadan, the only surviving female-authored memoir from the Mughal Empi…
2 years, 6 months ago
Origins of Fairy Tales
Episode 300
Fairy tales exist everywhere and in every time. Through centuries of oral tradition and the invention of print and later advances in television and f…
2 years, 6 months ago
Science vs. Witchcraft: The Kepler Trial
Episode 299
Astronomer Johannes Kepler was an important and admired figure in the scientific revolution of the early 17th century. But when his widowed mother wa…
2 years, 6 months ago
Ghosts & Guardian Angels
Episode 298
In Elizabethan and Stuart England, ghosts weren't supposed to exist. Protestant preachers and writers had banished them - but people continued to see…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Rise and Fall of Britain's Islands
Episode 297
How did Britain's islands become woven into our collective cultural psyche? Traversing Irish poetry, Renaissance drama and Restoration utopias, autho…
2 years, 7 months ago