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The Tudors Abroad
Episode 534
What did it mean to be English when merchants, sailors, captives, diplomats, and migrants were constantly crossing borders?
Pirates, a Kentish man bec…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Royal Favourites: Hatton, Elizabeth I's Favourite
Episode 533
How did Sir Christopher Hatton became one of Elizabeth I’s favourites? How true were the rumours that they were lovers?
After catching the Queen's ey…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Battle of the Eras: Medieval v. Early Modern
Episode 532
What if the medieval world did not end with a bang, but with a messy argument over who gets to define history itself? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb spa…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Royal Favourites: Queen Anne & Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
Episode 531
How did Sarah Churchill become the most powerful woman in Queen Anne’s court? What happens when a royal friendship turns into a political battlefield…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Louis XIV: Sun King and Propagandist
Episode 530
How did Louis XIV use his day-to-day life, especially his marriage, to help create the mythology of the Sun King as semi-divine, radiant and unrivall…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Royal Favourites: James I and George Villiers
Episode 529
How did a relatively humble gentleman become the most powerful man in Stuart England?
Few figures embodied the glamour and instability of the Jacobean…
4 months ago
Hoaxes and Lies in the Enlightenment
Episode 528
How did a ghost story bring London to a standstill? Was it a haunting, a fraud, or something even more revealing about Georgian society? Why did rati…
4 months ago
Royal Favourites: Robert Dudley, Elizabeth I's Forbidden Love
Episode 527
Passion, scandal, and power collided in the tumultuous relationship between Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley. Rumours of secret trysts between them set …
4 months, 1 week ago
Anne of Cleves: New Discoveries
Episode 526
What if Henry VIII’s “discarded bride” actually showed real promise as queen?
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Dr James Taffe to discuss new d…
4 months, 1 week ago
Francisco de Cuéllar: Spanish Armada Captain
Episode 525
How did a condemned Spanish Armada captain survive shipwreck, betrayal, and war to leave behind one of the most extraordinary first-person accounts o…
4 months, 2 weeks ago