Still Fighting the Dead: Germain Gardiner’s Scathing Attack on Martyr John Frith
On this day in Tudor history, 1st August 1534, Catholic gentleman Germain Gardiner published a scathing posthumous attack on Protestant martyr John Frith—over a year after Frith had been burned at the...
31 Jul 20255min
Killed by a Butcher
The Shocking End of a Tudor Baron - Edmund Sheffield’s Fall He was a baron, courtier, soldier, and poet... with powerful patrons like Thomas Cromwell and George Boleyn. But on 31st July 1549, during...
30 Jul 20254min
The Wind That Saved England: How the Spanish Armada Was Scattered
Storms at sea. Panic at court. And a queen under guard. On this day in Tudor history — 30th July 1588 — England’s fate shifted with the wind. The once-mighty Spanish Armada, already damaged by the Ba...
29 Jul 20253min
The Stepfather Who May Have Changed History
He didn’t wear a crown… but his choice may have changed the course of English history. On 29th July 1504, Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, died quietly at his manor in Lancashire. But nearly two de...
28 Jul 20255min
The Forgotten Tudor Wife Who Drank Her Own Urine to Survive - TUDOR TRUE CRIME
Starved. Poisoned. Locked in a castle tower. In Tudor England, one woman endured unthinkable cruelty at the hands of her noble husband—imprisoned in a tower, reduced to drinking her own urine to surv...
27 Jul 20256min
The Tiny Tudor Ship That Crossed the Atlantic
What if I told you that England’s very first official voyage of exploration to the New World didn’t begin in London—or even under an Englishman’s command? Join me, Claire Ridgway, historian and autho...
26 Jul 20258min
The Colour of Darkness - Claire Interviews author Toni Mount
Join me, Claire Ridgway, as I sit down with historian and bestselling author Toni Mount to celebrate the release of The Colour of Darkness — book 13 in the gripping Sebastian Foxley Medieval Mystery s...
25 Jul 202540min
How a Tudor Courtroom Became a Death Trap
Imagine stepping into court expecting justice… and instead walking into a death sentence. On this day in Tudor history, 25th July 1577, Queen Elizabeth I’s top lawyer, Nicholas Barham, died in Oxford...
24 Jul 20255min
