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208 I Heart Henry
Season 5 Episode 13
What happened when Henry was gone. And the report card - was Henry an incompetent tyrant, a fun loving saviour of England's future - or something in…
8 years, 10 months ago
207 The Underworld
Season 5 Episode 12
While the young prince Henry built a group of aristocratic companions and longed desperately for the joust, his father drove his hatchet men Dudley a…
8 years, 10 months ago
206 Descent to the Underworld
Season 5 Episode 11
Henry had found two hatchet men to replace Reginald Bray - Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley. They spread their tentacles and contacts through London …
8 years, 10 months ago
205 Do Not Let Me Perish
Season 5 Episode 10
In the early 1500's Henry VII saw many of his closest confidentes and supporters die. Catherine of Aragon was to be one of those who suffered as a re…
8 years, 11 months ago
204 Governing the Early Tudor State
Season 5 Episode 9
Henry made changes to the English court, administration and legal system. He increased the health of royal finances, and tried to make the justice s…
8 years, 11 months ago
203 The Spanish Princess
Season 5 Episode 8
After negotiations that would win prizes, it was finally time for Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth's pride and joy Prince Arthur to marry the Spanish P…
8 years, 11 months ago
202 Scotland, Cornwell and Warbeck
Season 5 Episode 7
The travels of Perkin Warbeck take him to Scotland, marriage and war; which leads to taxes, which leads to rebellion. T'was ever thus.
Hosted on Acas…
9 years ago
201 Poyning's Law
Season 5 Episode 6
Ireland in 1495 was almost 3 societies living side by side. We take a trip to Ireland, hear about the Great Earl, and the law that became known as Po…
9 years ago
200 Printin and Perkin
Season 5 Episode 5
The appearance of a new pretender - Perkin Warbeck in Ireland was to distort Henry VII's domestic and foreign policy for the rest of the 1490's.
Host…
9 years, 1 month ago
199 The New Men
Season 5 Episode 4
Henry VII's ambitions were to rule in the French style - to better control and increase his income. He gathered around him bureaucrats - new men he c…
9 years, 1 month ago