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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Renaissance Painter
Episode 201
During a time of increasing religious and political conflict, Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s paintings portrayed work and pleasure, rituals and festivals…
3 years, 5 months ago
17th Century Revolutionary England
Episode 200
In the 17th Century, people experienced major social and economic problems that intertwined with religious disagreements and political debates. The t…
3 years, 5 months ago
Who Painted Anne Dudley? A Tudor Mystery
Episode 199
For centuries, the name of an accomplished and popular portrait painter in the court of Elizabeth I has remained unknown. The renowned art historian …
3 years, 5 months ago
Menstruation in Early Modern England
Episode 198
Today we know that menstruation is a biological process. There’s a great deal of scientific research that explains the menstrual cycle. But how was m…
3 years, 6 months ago
Anne Boleyn’s Final Year
Episode 197
Anne Boleyn’s reputation is buried beneath centuries of labels: home-wrecker, seductress, opportunist, witch, romantic victim, Protestant martyr, fem…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Myth of 'Western Civilisation'
Episode 196
'Western Civilisation' is often thought of as a continuous thread through the centuries - from classical antiquity to the countries of the modern Wes…
3 years, 6 months ago
Katherine of Aragon: England's First Renaissance Queen
Episode 195
In preparation for International Women's Day this Wednesday, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb takes a look at a Queen whose reputation has largely been sh…
3 years, 6 months ago
Jews & the Inquisition in Italy
Episode 194
Between 1598 and 1785, the Papal or Roman Inquisition in Modena, Northern Italy, put 393 Jews on trial. Regarded as infidels, Jews were accused of, a…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Death of Amy Dudley
Episode 193
On 6 September 1560, Amy Robsart Dudley died after falling down a staircase at Cumnor Place in Oxfordshire. But did she fall? Was she pushed? Or did …
3 years, 6 months ago
The Blood Countess: Elizabeth Bathory
Episode 192
In the early seventeenth century, a Hungarian aristocrat called Erzsébet Báthory - or Elizabeth Bathory - was accused of murdering more than 600 youn…
3 years, 6 months ago