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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.
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9 years, 5 months 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, 5 months 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.
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9 years, 6 months 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, 6 months ago
198 Mothers and Wives
Season 5 Episode 3
In 1485 and 1486 Henry established the foundations of his reign through parliament, and established his household. The relationship between his wife…
9 years, 7 months ago
197 The Story of Henry VII
Season 5 Episode 2
The personality of Henry VII, the story he created of himself, and how history has treated his reputation.
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9 years, 7 months ago
5.1 - 196 The Early Tudors, 1485 - 1554
Season 5 Episode 1
After an introduction to series 5, we take an episode to survery the state of the nation in 1485, England at the Dawn of the Tudor Age. England in 14…
9 years, 8 months ago
195 The History of Europe Part VIII
Season 4 Episode 62
15th Century European kingdoms were wracked by internal division as well as international war. By the end of the century, Rome was no more, Christend…
9 years, 8 months ago
194 The Wars of the Roses
Season 4 Episode 61
1485 was not the end of the Wars of the Roses; the fear of dynastic strife lasts well into Henry VIII's reign. But we draw a close at the battle of S…
9 years, 9 months ago
193 The Blood of Innocents
Season 4 Episode 60
In 1483, the gates of the Tower of London closed on two innocent and defenceless boys; one, Edward, captured and the other Richard, given up by his m…
9 years, 9 months ago