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17th Century Female Spies
If you think that the female spy is a 20th century phenomenon, be it Mata Hari, Mrs Zigzag or Eve Polastri, think again! Accounts of numerous 17th ce…
4 years, 11 months ago
Tudor Banquets
The Tudors loved a good banquet, to show off their wealth and social status. Guests were plied with the most superb food, made from the most expensiv…
5 years ago
The Aztecs
What we know about the Aztecs of Mexico often comes from the accounts of their Spanish conquerors. But the Aztec culture was far more sophisticated t…
5 years ago
The Queer Shakespeare: John Lyly
John Lyly's name may not be so familiar. He was a playwright and poet writing at the same time as Shakespeare and, in his day, was more famous than t…
5 years ago
Bridewell: The Palace that became a Prison
In the heart of Shakespeare's London, there was a palace that had become a prison: Bridewell. Professor Duncan Salkeld has explored the records of th…
5 years ago
Henry VIII's Billionaire Wardrobe
Episode 2
Venetian ambassador Sebastian Giustinian described Henry VIII as the 'best dressed sovereign in the world'. The King spent the equivalent of £2 milli…
5 years ago
Velazquez and the Spanish Court
Episode 3
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Laura Cumming - author and art critic for The Observer - about Velázquez, arguably the greatest genius of Spanis…
5 years ago
An Early Modern Teenage Werewolf
Episode 1
The witch-hunts of sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe are well-known. But did you know that some 300 people were convicted of being werewolves?…
5 years ago