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Christopher Wren
Episode 244
Best known for St. Paul’s Cathedral, Christopher Wren was the greatest architect Britain has ever known. But he was so much more: he applied his mind…
3 years, 1 month ago
Treasures of Lambeth Palace
Episode 243
Books belonging to Henry VIII, Richard III, Mary I and Edward VI are among the treasures in the historic library of the Archbishops of Canterbury, on…
3 years, 1 month ago
Seymour, Dudley & Parr Families: Forgotten Tudor Women
Episode 242
Seymour, Dudley and Parr are all well-known Tudor names. But often, behind the more famous men in those families, there were women who had a much gre…
3 years, 1 month ago
The African Samurai
Episode 241
How did an enslaved East African man become Japan’s first foreign samurai, and the only ever samurai of African descent? How did Yasuke catch the att…
3 years, 1 month ago
Gentileschi: Greatest Female Artist of the Baroque Age
Episode 240
Artemisia Gentileschi was the most celebrated female painter of the 17th century, as famous in her lifetime as Reubens or Van Dyke. But the events of…
3 years, 1 month ago
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, …
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 2 months ago