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Tudor Gifts: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Episode 239
How meaningful can a gift - especially of a book - be? In the fickle world of the Tudor court, the strategic gifting of books was a common practice, …
2 years, 9 months ago
The Reformation: What Catholics & Protestants Believed
Episode 238
In the sixteenth century, religious beliefs underwent a dramatic change. As differences between the late medieval Roman Catholic Church and the natur…
2 years, 9 months ago
Ivan the Terrible
Episode 237
The name Ivan the Terrible is synonymous with brutality and ruthlessness. While Western scholars insist that the first crowned Tsar of all Russia did…
2 years, 9 months ago
Tudor Queens: The Power of Jewellery
Episode 236
From the mid-15th century to the mid-16th century, there were 10 Queens Consort of England, from Margaret of Anjou to Katherine Parr. For each of the…
2 years, 9 months ago
Elizabethan Rivals: Francis Bacon & Edward Coke
Episode 235
As Queen Elizabeth I lays dying, King James VI of Scotland is waiting to accede to the throne of England. But who will thrive and who will fall under…
2 years, 9 months ago
Francis Drake's Discovery of West Coast America
Episode 234
In the summer of 1579, Francis Drake had to land in a ‘fair and good bay’ on the western coast of the New World when his ship - The Golden Hind - nee…
2 years, 10 months ago
Thomas More on Film: The Historians' Verdict
Episode 233
What do you get when you bring together five top historians to debate depictions of Thomas More on film and TV? History with the gloves off - our thi…
2 years, 10 months ago
Elizabeth I's Musician: William Byrd
Episode 232
The most admired and influential composer during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I, William Byrd died exactly 400 years ago on 4 July …
2 years, 10 months ago
Shakespeare's Plays: The Power of Gestures
Episode 231
When we think of Shakespeare, we mostly think of language. But what about gesture and other forms of nonverbal communication - from thumb-biting in R…
2 years, 10 months ago
Transgender Fairies in Early Modern Literature
Episode 230
Today we think of fairies on the stage and in stories as often cute, ultra-feminine and unthreatening. But in Early Modern literature, fairies were s…
2 years, 10 months ago