Public Executions in London
For at least 700 years, presumed criminals were publicly executed in London. Such occasions were often gruesome, gory and very popular.A new exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands explores this ...
28 Nov 202235min
Fall of the Ming Dynasty
In 1627 Zhu Youjian, the Chongzhen Emperor, became the 17th - and what would turn out to be the last - Emperor of China’s Ming Dynasty. It had ruled a vast realm stretching 6.5 million square kilometr...
24 Nov 202251min
Football and the Tudors
Already in 2022 we have celebrated England’s Lionesses winning the Women’s European Championships, and this month you may well be waiting with bated breath to see how England’s men fare in the World C...
21 Nov 202222min
Henry VIII’s Lost Brother, Prince Arthur
During the early part of the sixteenth century England should have been ruled by King Arthur Tudor with his wife Catherine of Aragon as Queen. Had the first-born son of Henry VII lived into adulthood,...
17 Nov 202246min
Oliver Cromwell’s Republic
On 30 January 1649, King Charles I was executed for treason. Within weeks the monarchy had been abolished and the House of Lords discarded. The people were now the sovereign force in the land. What th...
14 Nov 202246min
Inca Apocalypse
For many, the word Inca conjures up images of an ancient civilisation in South America, swiftly conquered by the Spanish in their quest for gold and Christian converts.In this episode of Not Just the ...
10 Nov 202255min
Life in Tudor England
What was life really like in Tudor England? This was a society where monarchy was under strain, the church was in crisis, where contending with war, rebellion, plague and poverty was a fact of daily l...
7 Nov 202250min
Mary I: Myths Vs. Reality
Queen Mary I was the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. She reigned - as England’s first Queen Regnant - between 1553-1558. Unlike her sister and successor Elizabeth I, Mary’s posthumous ...
3 Nov 202246min
