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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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months ago