Tudor podcast episodes
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Tudor ladies-in-waiting: the women who served Henry VIII's queens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Dr Nicola Clark explores the lives of the women serving the six queens of Henry VIII, who watched Tudor England convulsed by dissolution, reformation and royal executions
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Shardlake: bringing the Tudor murder mystery to the screen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Historical consultant Peter Wagstaff takes us into the world of Shardlake, a new Tudor murder-mystery drama set during the dissolution of the monasteries
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What did the Tudors wear?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Jane Malcolm-Davies unpicks the historical sources to uncover what people wore in the 16th century
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The Tudor who hiked North America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Dean Snow tells the story of an Englishman who embarked on an extraordinary 3,600-mile trek across North America in the 1560s
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Tudor childhood: from dodging death to nursery rhymes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Nicholas Orme uncovers what infancy and childhood were like in the 16th century
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Disabled people in Tudor times. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Phillipa Vincent-Connolly explores the lives of disabled people in the Tudor era, from community care to the royal court
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The rise and fall of the Boleyns. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Lauren Mackay on the tumultuous lives of Anne Boleyn’s father and brother, Thomas and George
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Inside the mind of Elizabeth I. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Helen Castor explores the psychology of the Virgin Queen
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Thomas Cromwell reconsidered. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Diarmaid MacCulloch discusses his new book on the Tudor statesman
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The Tudors, everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
In a bonus Sunday episode, Tracy Borman responds to listener queries and popular search enquiries about the 16th-century English royal dynasty
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Jane Seymour: Henry VIII’s favourite queen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Alison Weir discusses the life and tragic death of the Tudor king’s third wife, who bore him his long-awaited male heir
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The tragedy of Lady Jane Grey. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Helen Castor describes the short, but dramatic, life and reign of England’s ‘Nine Days Queen’
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Tudors in revolt: the Western Rising of 1549. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Mark Stoyle follows the progress of the so-called “Prayer Book Rebellion”, and explores how this dramatic revolt almost changed the course of Tudor history
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The Dudleys: power behind the Tudor throne. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Joanne Paul reveals how the might of the Tudor dynasty was built on the blood and sweat of three generations of another family – the Dudleys
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Goods & globalisation: merchants in Tudor & Stuart England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Edmond Smith reveals how a tightly-woven merchant community helped bring about the globalisation of England between 1550 and 1650
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Why the Tudors fell for courtly love. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Sarah Gristwood considers how the Tudor monarchs used medieval ideas about courtly love for their own ends
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Tudor queens on screen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Elena Woodacre delivers a lecture on the portrayal of historical queens in cinema and television, from Mary Queen of Scots to The Spanish Princess
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Katharine Parr: secrets of a Tudor survivor. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Alison Weir discusses the varied and dramatic life of Henry VIII’s final wife, Katharine Parr
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Painting the Tudors: Hans Holbein the Younger. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Sometimes described as England’s Leonardo, Hans Holbein the Younger painted the great and the good of Tudor society. Franny Moyle chronicles his incredible art and tempestuous life
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The unexpected Tudors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Sam Willis and James Daybell take a sideways look at the Tudors era, exploring everything from gloves to priest holes
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Amy Robsart: a Tudor tragedy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Nicola Cornick discusses the life and mysterious death of Tudor gentlewoman Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley
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Exclusive podcastNicola Tallis on the life of Margaret Beaufort. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
In this lecture recorded at BBC History Magazine’s 2019 History Weekend, historian Nicola Tallis explores the life of Tudor matriarch Margaret Beaufort
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Monarchy and faith in Tudor England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Estelle Paranque and Emma J Wells reflect on the religious changes that took place during the reigns of Henry VIII and his children
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Bess of Hardwick: a Tudor success story. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Kate Hubbard on the fascinating life of Bess of Hardwick who become the second richest woman in England after Elizabeth I