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Anne Boleyn at Hever Castle
Episode 524
What was Anne Boleyn like before she became the most controversial queen in English history? Can the rooms and gardens at her childhood home reveal m…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Maria Theresa, Habsburg Empress
Episode 523
How did a woman rise to power, and keep it, in the fiercely male-dominated Habsburg Empire?
From her distrust of the Enlightenment to her religious in…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Elizabethans in India
Episode 522
How did England’s earliest travellers to India try to win favour in a Mughal golden age that scarcely noticed them?
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb speaks…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Lady Jane Grey
Episode 521
What if becoming queen was the worst thing that could happen to you? What if the crown became your death sentence?
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb explore…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Grace O'Malley, Ireland's Pirate Queen
Episode 520
She cut off her hair to sail the seas. She divorced her husband by locking him out of his own castle. And when her son was killed by the occupying En…
5 months ago
Elizabethan Boy Actresses
Episode 519
Why were Shakespeare’s greatest heroines played by teenage boys? How did they learn their craft? On the Elizabethan stage, highly trained young men p…
5 months ago
When the Spanish Armada Reached Ireland
Episode 518
What happens when a fleeing armada meets an unforgiving coast? Shipwreck, slaughter and survival collide as Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Michael B…
5 months, 1 week ago
Henry Wotton: Outlaw and Royal Spy
Episode 517
Assassination plots, Venetian stand‑offs and a diplomat in disguise: how did one maverick change the course of history?
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb an…
5 months, 1 week ago
The Rise and Fall of Pirate Captain Kidd
Episode 516
Was Captain William Kidd a ruthless pirate or a pawn in a royal gamble gone wrong? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Debbie Kilroy trace his meteoric …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Plantagenet vs. Tudor: Who was the Rightful King?
Episode 515
Who had a stronger claim to the English throne than Henry VII? When Henry Tudor took the crown on the battlefield at Bosworth, his hereditary claim …
5 months, 2 weeks ago