Body for Body: The People Who Ran the Tower of London
Did you know the very first person ever imprisoned in the Tower of London also became the first person to escape from it? He got his guards drunk, abseiled out of a window on a rope smuggled in via a ...
23 Kesä 18min
The Emperor Who Dropped Mary Tudor For a Better Dowry (And Changed History Forever)
In 1525, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V broke off his engagement to the young Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, and married his cousin Isabella of Portugal instead. The reason?...
22 Kesä 21min
The Black Tudors History Forgot
**Note - I gave Cattalena's death date wrong - it's 1625 and I said 1525! So sorry!!! *** When I picture Tudor England, I used to picture... white people. Portraits. Ruffs. Henry VIII being grumpy. ...
19 Kesä 23min
What If Tyndale Had Never Translated the Bible? The Man Who Invented English (and Died For It)
What if one man had never existed? William Tyndale was a scholar, a fugitive, and a martyr who died in 1536 strangled at the stake for committing what his government considered a capital crime: transl...
17 Kesä 27min
Answering the Internet's Most Googled Questions About the Tudors
Did the Tudors steal the throne? Did they brush their teeth? Did they smell? I typed "did the Tudors" into Google and answered every single autocomplete suggestion with actual history. Some answers ar...
16 Kesä 22min
Did Tudors Actually Swim? (The Answer Is Weirder Than You Think)
Someone asked me this from their pool. They were floating around listening to the podcast and thought, "did the people I'm obsessed with ever do this?" And it sent me down a rabbit hole, because the a...
15 Kesä 16min
Tudor Laundresses: Three Very Different Lives Doing the Dirtiest Job at Court
What did it actually take to keep Tudor England clean? Before dawn, before the court woke up, before Henry VIII put on his famous doublet, someone was already up to her elbows in lye, urine, and other...
10 Kesä 20min
Medieval Women Couldn't Hold Power? Meet the Two Female Sheriffs Who Ran Entire Counties
Everything we think we know about women and power in the medieval world is missing a few key details. Like the fact that there were exactly two female sheriffs in medieval England, and that their live...
9 Kesä 14min
