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300 Trade and Exploration
Season 6 Episode 35
Elizabeth's reign famously saw England enter the search for new markets with which to trade and explore. In this episode, we focus on trade with West…
5 years, 3 months ago
299 West Africa
Season 6 Episode 34
A horribly brief introduction to the West African kingdoms with which the Portuguese started to trade and a smidge of their backstory, before the Eng…
5 years, 3 months ago
Introducing the Fault Line: Bush, Blair and Iraq
The Fault Line: Bush, Blair and Iraq is a new podcast that explores the 18 months between 9/11 and the start of the war. it goes on to explore how th…
5 years, 3 months ago
298 A Curate's Egg
Season 6 Episode 33
What started as a curate's egg of an episode, ends up with an introduction to a new player, Francis Walsingham, and the story of the St Bartholomew's…
5 years, 4 months ago
297 Servant of Crime
Season 6 Episode 32
Through the 1560s, the progress of the reformation gave both the Protestant Godly and Catholics much leeway and wriggle room. A series of events in t…
5 years, 4 months ago
296 Rising of the North
Season 6 Episode 31
The saga of the life and times of Mary Queen of Scots continues, but in 1568 something stirs in the north of England...
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5 years, 4 months ago
295 Marvellous Good order
Season 6 Episode 30
In Scotland Mary's grasp on her kingdom begins to wobble. In 1566, Elizabeth's parliament also gives her serious grief, drawing an increasingly waspi…
5 years, 5 months ago
294 Alarms and Excursions
Season 6 Episode 29
Did Elizabeth have a foreign 'policy'? If so what principles drove it - dynasty, parsimony, protestantism? This week Elizabeth intervenes in Scotland…
5 years, 5 months ago
293 Sex and Marriage
Season 6 Episode 28
Dudley was for long considered the front runner for any possible marriage; but there was a long list of suitors. And Elizabeth was under pressure fro…
5 years, 6 months ago
292 The Queens Marriage
Season 6 Episode 27
What were the issues around marriage for Elizabeth and her subjects? Because as the continuing barney between the two of them would prove, it really …
5 years, 6 months ago