Eating Through the Tudor Year with Brigitte Webster (ep 180)
Eating with the Tudors is more than a guide to Tudor eating, it is a description of the changing world of monarchs and their people in the sixteenth century. Tudor food expert Brigitte Webster joins u...
24 Tammi 202458min
Tudor Education and Women's Lives with Amy McElroy (episode 179)
We love to learn about the Tudors, but how did Tudors learn? And what was life like for Tudor women? Author and historian Amy McElroy joins us to explore the lives of learners and women during Tudor t...
10 Tammi 202449min
Tudor Gift Giving and New Year's Gift Rolls (ep 178)
After-Christmas blues? Not in Tudor England. The celebrations were just beginning on December 25! Gifts were exchanged on New Year's Day in an extravagant ceremony, bringing joy, politics, and histori...
27 Joulu 202335min
Celebrate Christmas, Tudor Style! With James Taffe (ep 177)
Celebrating Christmas was a big event in Tudor times, just as it is today. Dr.James Taffe joins us to explore the fascinating ways Tudors experienced everything from joy to gluttony to melancholy duri...
20 Joulu 202347min
More Thoughts on the Princes in the Tower with Nathen Amin (ep 176)
Recent discoveries sponsored by the Richard III Society have opened new discussions about the Princes in the Tower. Nathen Amin weighs in about the likelihood the boys survived. Carol Ann Lloyd www.c...
13 Joulu 202354min
How Hans Holbein "Created" Henry VIII with Franny Moyle (ep 175)
The Tudors are one of the most well-known of the English royal dynasties for several reasons: the larger than life characters, the multiple marriages and Virgin Queen, and the extraordinary portraits....
29 Marras 202342min
Civil Wars and a Kingdom without a King with Miranda Malins (ep 174)
With a country that's mostly a monarchy, it's tempting to skip over the gap between Charles I and Charles II. But those years of reimagining government changed things forever. Historian Miranda Malins...
15 Marras 202345min
Double, Double, Kings in Trouble: James I, Lear, and Macbeth (ep 173)
Double, double, toil and trouble is not so far removed from what becomes a modern chant, remember, remember the 5th of November. As always, history shows us what’s possible. And in 1605 and 1606, Shak...
1 Marras 202345min
