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304 Seeds of Irish Nationhood
Season 6 Episode 39
By the 1580s, the English atrocities and the rebellion of James Fitzmaurice and the Earl of Desmond, Catholicism and its association with resistance …
5 years, 6 months ago
303 Shane the Proud
Season 6 Episode 38
The later Tudors faced a choice in their policy towards Ireland - would they resign themselves to the old ways, ruling through the Old English with m…
5 years, 6 months ago
302 England's Garland
Season 6 Episode 37
There are many myths about the Elizabethan Navy, the idea of a world-beating tool that created an international Empire. It wasn't quite, and it didn'…
5 years, 7 months ago
301 Black Tudors
Season 6 Episode 36
Black Africans began to make their way in increasing numbers to England - firstly mainly via trading countries like Spain and Portugal, but increasin…
5 years, 7 months ago
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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago