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Biggest Tudor Discoveries 2021
Episode 73
In this special end of the year edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb takes a look back at 2021 and the major events and achiev…
4 years, 8 months ago
Tudor Ghosts and Angels
Episode 72
To this day, the presence of angels is synonymous with the Christmas story and the momentous events associated with the Nativity. For the Tudors and …
4 years, 8 months ago
Witches of Iceland
Episode 71
In Iceland in the 17th century, witchcraft accusations, trials and convictions occurred later than in the rest of Europe. But also unusual was the fa…
4 years, 8 months ago
Tudor Box Set Binge
Episode 70
If you are planning your television viewing over the holidays, especially if you are looking forward to bingeing on the best Tudor dramas and classic…
4 years, 8 months ago
Dürer: The Great Renaissance Artist
Episode 69
Albrecht Dürer was the greatest German artist to come out of the Renaissance, whose high quality woodcuts revolutionised the potential of the medium.…
4 years, 8 months ago
True Crime on the Elizabethan Stage
Episode 68
The true crime genre - stories of actual murders and other crimes that are then fictionalised - is not a new phenomenon. More than four centuries ago…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Murder of Rizzio, Mary Queen of Scots' Favourite
Episode 67
On 9 March 1566, David Rizzio - close friend and private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots - was stabbed dozens of times in front of the pregnant Que…
4 years, 9 months ago
Black Tudors
Episode 66
Our image of the Tudor era remains overwhelmingly white. But the black presence in England was much greater than has previously been recognised, and …
4 years, 9 months ago
How Powerful was Henry VIII?
Episode 65
Was Henry VIII as all-powerful and tyrannical as we have come to believe? Is the scheming of Thomas Cromwell portrayed in Wolf Hall close to the trut…
4 years, 9 months ago
The First Gun Crime in London
Episode 64
Early in the morning of Sunday 13 November 1536, a London merchant named Robert Pakington was shot dead crossing Cheapside as he walked to church. It…
4 years, 9 months ago