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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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 months ago
The Glencoe Massacre
Episode 87
In the early hours of 13 February 1692, in the rugged and beautiful mountains of Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands, some 30 members and associates of…
4 years, 7 months ago
Kateryn Parr: Henry VIII's Sixth Queen
Episode 86
Kateryn Parr - as she herself wrote her name - is often portrayed as a colourless, prudish figure, known mainly for surviving her marriage to King He…
4 years, 7 months ago
Travel in the Ming Dynasty
Episode 85
Around the same time as the Mayflower was landing at Cape Cod, on the other side of the world tourism was thriving in China, giving rise to a fascina…
4 years, 7 months ago
Edward VI: The Last Boy King
Episode 84
Edward VI, son of Henry VIII, became King of England at the age of nine. All around him loomed powerful men who hoped to use him to further their own…
4 years, 7 months ago
Introducing: On Jimmy's Farm
Join celebrity farmer, ecologist and conservationist, Jimmy Doherty, on his farm as he talks to eco-experts and well-known faces about trying to live…
4 years, 7 months ago