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Sir Thomas More
Episode 48
Who was Thomas More - Knight, Chancellor and Martyr? His life is paradoxical, with More regarded as both saint and persecutor, Humanist intellectual …
4 years, 7 months ago
The Gunpowder Plot: Tudor Origins
Episode 47
The Gunpowder Plot is one of the hinge events of British history - an act of terror the roots of which stretch back to the Tudor period and Henry VII…
4 years, 7 months ago
Holbein and the Tudor Court
Episode 46
In the early 1530s, the painter Hans Holbein the Younger returns to London. His patronage by Anne Boleyn and the influential Thomas Cromwell leads to…
4 years, 7 months ago
Hans Holbein's Early Years
Episode 45
Hans Holbein the Younger is celebrated for his hyper-realistic, iconic portraits of Henry VIII, Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Anne of Cleves, Jane Se…
4 years, 7 months ago
Clothing Tudor Queens
Episode 44
How did Tudor Queens clothe themselves? How did female fashion change over Henry VIII's reign? Did foreign Queens influence English fashion or adopt …
4 years, 7 months ago
Islam and the Elizabethans
Elizabeth I's excommunication by the Pope in 1570 marked the beginning of an extraordinary - and little talked about - English alignment with Muslim …
4 years, 7 months ago
Making Babies in the 17th Century
Making babies was a mysterious process for people in early modern England. Their ideas about conception, pregnancy, and childbirth tell us much about…
4 years, 8 months ago
Ottoman Traveller: Fynes Moryson
In July 1596, Fynes Moryson - a Lincolnshire gentleman and travel writer - was struck down with grief when his younger brother died as they crossed t…
4 years, 8 months ago
Tudors in Love
The dramas of courtly love have captivated readers and dreamers for centuries. Yet they’re often dismissed as something that existed only in the lege…
4 years, 8 months ago
Accused of Witchcraft
Not all suspicions of witchcraft led to a formal accusation, and not all such accusations led to trials and execution. During the entire early modern…
4 years, 8 months ago