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Mary II and Anne: Sister Queens
Episode 122
To mark the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, June is Queenship month on Not Just the Tudors. Our series continues with a look at two of Britai…
4 years, 2 months ago
How to Become Queen in Early Modern Europe
Episode 121
In Early Modern Europe, Queens did not come fully formed. Rather, a series of rites, rituals and ceremonies transformed a hesitant bride into a fully…
4 years, 3 months ago
The Queen Who Was Crowned King
Episode 120
Not Just the Tudors’ month-long season on Queenship continues with a look at the fascinating Christina Varsa, who was crowned King of Sweden on 20 Oc…
4 years, 3 months ago
Tudor England's Foreign Queens
Episode 119
Not Just the Tudors’ special month-long look at Queenship continues with an exploration of the popular perception of those foreign Queens who came to…
4 years, 3 months ago
Queen Consorts in the Renaissance
Episode 118
Throughout this month, every episode of Not Just the Tudors is honouring Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee by focussing on some aspect of Queensh…
4 years, 3 months ago
Isabella & Ferdinand's Granada
Episode 117
From the early Middle Ages to the present day, travellers have been bewitched by the peerless beauty of Granada. From 1230 until 1492, it was ruled b…
4 years, 3 months ago
The Man Who Broke Michelangelo's Nose
Episode 116
Pietro Torrigiano is credited with introducing Renaissance art to England in the early years of the 16th century and designed the tomb of Henry VII, …
4 years, 3 months ago
Religious Exiles in Early Modern Europe
Episode 115
Facing persecution in Elizabethan England, some Catholics chose exile over conformity. Some even cast their lot with foreign monarchs rather than wai…
4 years, 3 months ago
Anne Boleyn: Dispelling the Myths
Episode 114
There are so many myths about Anne Boleyn - among them that she had six fingers, that she was a murderess, even that she was Henry VIII's own daughte…
4 years, 3 months ago
The English Civil War: Loyalty House
Episode 113
The Civil War was the most traumatic conflict in British history, pitting friends and family members against each other, tearing down the old order.
A…
4 years, 3 months ago