Chapter 192- The Dance of Evil May Day (I: The Beginning of the Grudge) (1514-1517)
May. 1517. London is rocked by a riot directed towards the foreigners living within its walls, an orgy of violence forever known as the ‘Evil May Day’. But just how bad were these riots? Were they ...
1 Huhti 55min
Chapter 191- The Fire of Westminster (1410-1415)
Henry VIII began his new reign with a desire to earn glory in war- and plunged the nation headlong into an unexpected and large scale war with France, all seemingly driven by his fiery passion to show...
26 Maalis 58min
Chapter 190- …and the boy from Putney (A Tale of Two Toms 2) (1500-1512)
Continuing the fascinating tale of the early lives of two of London’s most infamous residents of the time- Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell. Picking up with More a trainee barrister in Lincolns Inn, w...
18 Maalis 46min
Chapter 189- The Boy from Cripplegate… (A tale of two Toms 1) (1478-1503)
We take a pause in our narrative to go back a few years to look at the childhoods, and backgrounds of two men from London- both called Thomas, both growing up in and around London (even if their exper...
12 Maalis 50min
Chapter 188- Volo (‘I Will’) (1508-1509)
The opening years of the reign of Henry VIII were quite paradoxical; for a king who would become known as a radical, a man who changed the nation so completely as he did, the first years of his reign ...
5 Maalis 56min
Chapter 187- The Last Days of Henry VII (1508-1509)
Henry VII was dying… but as the first Tudor monarch slowly drifted towards death, in London the city was stilled gripped by the terrible regime of his loyal lapdog, Edmund Dudley. As the kings health...
25 Helmi 50min
Chapter 186- The Spanish Gambit Part 2 (Storms) (1506-1507)
In the second part of ‘The Spanish Gambit’ we start to draw together the diverse threads of this story- Henry VII’s changing foreign policy ambitions, the ambitions of the Hapsburgs, the desperation o...
19 Helmi 55min
Chapter 185- The Spanish Gambit (1504-1506) (Part 1)
Towards the end of his reign, Henry VII really came into his own; he stood as a giant on the European stage, a player in THE most dynamic and profound change in European politics in decades, poised to...
12 Helmi 51min
