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232 Evangelicals
Season 5 Episode 37
From the mid 1520s, the church authorities began to face a more serious challenge from evangelicals like Thomas Bilney and Hugh Latimer. And in 1526 …
8 years, 6 months ago
231 The Scandal of Christendom Debate
Season 5 Episode 36
Some of the arguments about Anne Boleyn's life and career, to help you make you make your choice and vote on the History of England Facebook page htt…
8 years, 7 months ago
230 The Execution of Anne Boleyn
Season 5 Episode 35
On May Day 1536 at Greenwich, Anne and Henry could put their worries aside. Everything was well with the world as they watched the joust. Then Henry …
8 years, 8 months ago
229 The Reign of Queen Anne Boleyn
Season 5 Episode 34
We discuss what we know about Anne as Queen consort, and chart the progress of the break with a thousand years of tradition in the declaration of roy…
8 years, 8 months ago
228 Mistress Anne Boleyn, Scandal of Christendom
Season 5 Episode 33
The start of 4 weeks of fun, debate, voting and prizes as we consider the life of Anne Boleyn and decide whether Catherine was being fair in describi…
8 years, 8 months ago
227 The Reformation Parliament
Season 5 Episode 32
After Wolsey's fall was a period of stalemate; but between 1529 and 1532, Henry's thoughts crystalised, Anne became to be openly at his side - and a …
8 years, 8 months ago
226 The Great Wether
Season 5 Episode 31
In 1529 the campaign for the King's great matter, his divorce came to a climax. Wolsey persuaded the Pope to allow a court to be held in England unde…
8 years, 8 months ago
225 Matters Great and Personal
Season 5 Episode 30
The king's Great Matter as it was to be called, outraged and divided Christendom, and has been dividing us ever since. What motivated it? Who was res…
8 years, 9 months ago
224 Deadly Poison
Season 5 Episode 29
In 1520 the Pope threatened an obscure Augustinian monk with excommunication. Why ? What happened next? And how did the English react?
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8 years, 9 months ago
223 Venal or Vital?
Season 5 Episode 28
The traditional story of the English Reformation has been of a rotten, moribund, venal church, just waiting to be toppled by reformers, the pyre igni…
8 years, 9 months ago