The Blood Countess: Elizabeth Bathory
In the early seventeenth century, a Hungarian aristocrat called Erzsébet Báthory - or Elizabeth Bathory - was accused of murdering more than 600 young women. Her gruesome story has been sensationalise...
23 Helmi 202330min
Mary Queen of Scots’ Lost Letters Decoded
The most important discovery related to Mary Queen of Scots for 100 years was recently made - by a team of amateur cryptologists. In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb ta...
20 Helmi 202343min
The House of Guise: Europe's Most Murderous Dynasty?
The rich and powerful Guise family was one of the most treacherous and bloodthirsty in sixteenth-century France. They whipped up religious bigotry, overthrowing the king. They ruled Scotland for nearl...
16 Helmi 202339min
Children in Tudor England
What was it like to grow up in Tudor England? How were children cared for, what did they play with, and which subjects were they taught?In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipsc...
13 Helmi 202349min
The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
This month on Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb investigates four of history’s most notorious murders and brutal crimes.In this first episode, she’s joined by Charles Nicholl to dig dee...
9 Helmi 202350min
Henrietta Maria, Charles I’s Queen Consort
Charles I's Queen Henrietta Maria was perhaps the most reviled consort to have worn the crown of Britain's three kingdoms. To this day, she remains the wife who turned her husband Catholic - causing a...
6 Helmi 202328min
Marguerite de Navarre: Mother of Renaissance France
Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) was an influential diplomat and political activist, an outstanding patron of philosophers and artists, an accomplished writer and poet, and sister to King François I ...
2 Helmi 202347min
When London Shipped Poor Children to America
In 1618, almost 100 impoverished children from London - some as young as eight - arrived in Jamestown, Virginia to labour in the growing colony. It was the first example of transporting children to co...
30 Tammi 202344min
