Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

History

Renaissance England was a bustling and exciting place...new religion! break with rome! wars with Scotland! And France! And Spain! The birth of the modern world! In this weekly podcast I'll explore one aspect of life in 16th century England that will...

Episodes

What If Thomas More Had Just Signed? (My Hair and I Discuss)

Spinster: The Job Title That Became an Insult

The Tudor Women Who Controlled Access to the Queen (And Paid the Price)

The Tudor Legal Loophole That Gave Women Their Lives Back

The Tudor Woman Who Ran the Household Pharmacy (And Accidentally Poisoned Everyone)

She Told Two Kings No and Kept Her Castle (And They Had to Wait Until She Died)

Patriotism in Tudor England: How a Nation Learned to Love Itself

Plague, Prayer and Running Away: How Tudor Londoners Survived the Epidemics

Did Elizabeth I Actually Order Mary Queen of Scots' Execution?

She Never Said Her Mother's Name. But She Never Took Off the Ring.

What If Edward VI Had Backed Down? The Deathbed Decision That Changed England

Henry VIII, Constantine, and the Art of the Very Confident Lie

1509: The Year Everyone Thought It Was All Beginning

The Life of a Tudor Con Artist (They Had Job Titles)

What If Anne Boleyn Had Lived? Cromwell's Three Choices and Where They Led

Henry VII's Impossible Choice: Execute an Innocent Man or Lose Everything

Tudor Medicine and the Mind: Melancholy, Music, and What Help Actually Looked Like

What If Lady Jane Grey Had Refused the Crown?

The Dairymaid: Tudor England's Most Underestimated Woman

How Did Tudors Survive Without Coffee? (The Answer Is Weirder Than You Think)