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Samuel Pepys
Episode 137
The great diarist Samuel Pepys was an avid collector of books, news and gossip, and reading was a major part of his life and the lives of his contemp…
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Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army
Episode 136
The New Model Army was one of the most formidable fighting forces ever assembled. It played a crucial role in overthrowing King Charles I, propelling…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Trial of a Latvian Werewolf
Episode 135
In 1691, a peasant in Livonia - on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea - announced before a startled district court that he was a werewolf. Yet far f…
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The Tudors and Food
Episode 134
What food - and how much of it - did people eat in the Tudor period? Where did they get it? When did they eat it? What arrangements for cookery and d…
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The Cultural Impact of Colonisation
Episode 133
Ruffs, Pipes and Pearls
When Francis Drake returned home from the Spanish West Indies, he carried with him pearls to present as gifts to Elizabeth I. …
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The Venetian Inquisition
Episode 132
From the sixteenth century through to the end of the eighteenth century, the Venetian government and the Roman Catholic Church jointly established a …
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Anne of Cleves
Episode 131
Anne of Cleves was the ‘last woman standing’ of Henry VIII’s wives and the only one buried in Westminster Abbey. How did she manage it? Was she in fa…
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The Man who Wrote Robinson Crusoe: Daniel Dafoe
Episode 130
In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Professor Alan Downie about Daniel Dafoe, whose life was at least as col…
3 years, 9 months ago
Isaac Newton
Episode 129
One of the greatest mathematicians and most influential physicists of all time, Isaac Newton was born into a world of turmoil that shaped him and the…
3 years, 10 months ago
Tudor Poet Anne Askew: Heretic or Martyr?
Episode 128
Born in 1521, Anne Askew was condemned as a heretic for her radical Protestantism beliefs during the reign of Henry VIII. Tortured and executed after…
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