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The End of Monasteries
Episode 97
The dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII ended almost a millennium of monastic life in England, resulting in a dislocation of people and a…
4 years, 1 month ago
Henry VIII's Courtier, Sir Thomas Wyatt
Episode 96
No one represented the complexities of the court of Henry VIII better than Sir Thomas Wyatt, a skilled diplomat who was forced to live with the moral…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Real Cyrano de Bergerac
Episode 95
One of the world's much loved stage and screen characters has just returned to the cinema in a new film version starring Peter Dinklage. But what may…
4 years, 1 month ago
Elizabeth Stuart: The Forgotten Queen
Episode 94
As a contribution to International Women's Day last Tuesday, this episode of Not Just the Tudors is a tribute to one of the great - but largely forgo…
4 years, 2 months ago
Elizabeth I's Favourite Painter: Hilliard
Episode 93
Born in Exeter in 1547, the miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard left to posterity some of the most famous and enduring images of Queen Elizabeth I. But who…
4 years, 2 months ago
How the Tudors Told Time
Episode 92
How time passes - or how it is understood to pass - itself has a fascinating history. For the Tudors, the uneven hours of the Medieval reckoning were…
4 years, 2 months ago
Same-Sex Marriages in Renaissance Rome
Episode 91
All this month on the History Hit family of podcasts, we've been marking LGBT+ History Month. To round off the month, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb inv…
4 years, 2 months ago
Oliver Cromwell's Wife and Daughters
Episode 90
How can women be reinstated into the narrative of history when their presence is only faintly attested to in the remaining sources? How can fiction h…
4 years, 2 months ago
Escaping Slavery in London
Episode 89
In 1655, White Londoners began advertising in newspapers to retrieve enslaved people who had escaped. Groundbreaking research is bringing to light fo…
4 years, 2 months ago
Women's Work in 17th Century London
Episode 88
In the late 17th century, young women arrived in London to earn their own living, with mistresses setting up shops and supervising female apprentices…
4 years, 2 months ago