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Louis XIV and his Mistresses
Louis XIV ruled France for more than 72 years, the longest recorded reign of any monarch of any sovereign country in history. Despite the devotion of…
4 years, 10 months ago
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots, returned to the news headlines when the rosary she carried to her execution in 1587, was recently stolen from Arundel Castle. I…
4 years, 10 months ago
Japan's Edo Period
After a century of Civil War, changes in the way Japan was ruled from 1600 onwards meant that Europeans and Christianity made few inroads into Japane…
4 years, 11 months ago
The French Historie: A Gory Poem
In 1589, Anne Dowriche, the wife of a Puritan minister from Devon, wrote a long and gory poem about the bloody, ongoing conflict between Catholics an…
4 years, 11 months ago
A 16th Century Public Executioner
The German executioner Meister Frantz Schmidt kept a fascinating journal of all the executions, torture and punishments he administered between 1573 …
4 years, 11 months ago
Dissolution of the Monasteries
Ordered by King Henry VIII and carried out by Thomas Cromwell, the dissolution of the monasteries was the greatest land re-distribution in England si…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Renaissance Lute
The lute, with its double strings and beautiful decorative detail is a familiar feature of Renaissance paintings. In the sixteenth century, lute musi…
4 years, 11 months ago
Origins of the English in India
In the late 16th century, a group of London merchants petitioned Queen Elizabeth I to allow them to build English trade in Asia. She granted a charte…
4 years, 11 months ago
Anne Boleyn: New Discoveries
Anne Boleyn has been trending on Twitter after it was announced that secret inscriptions were found hidden in the Book of Hours that she took to her …
4 years, 11 months ago
Anne Boleyn: Life and Afterlives
In the first of two special podcasts to mark the 485th anniversary of Anne Boleyn's death, Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by a panel of experts to discu…
4 years, 11 months ago