Henry VIII & his Rabbis
Henry VIII's desire to divorce Catherine of Aragon changed England; it could be justified by a biblical law that prohibited a man from marrying his brother's widow, yet another passage seemed to sugge...
20 Mar 202542min
Murderous Women
**This podcast contains graphic descriptions of murders and the punishments of those convicted**Gruesome murders carried out by women captivated the public imagination in Early Modern Britain. Pamphle...
17 Mar 202553min
The Birth of New York City
Exactly 400 years ago, the Dutch West India Company built Fort Amsterdam on the southern tip of Manhattan island, a beacon of power and resilience against threats from Europeans and Indigenous America...
13 Mar 202544min
Ireland's Witchcraft Trials
In 1711, a wave of terror gripped the Islandmagee peninsula in County Antrim. First there was the haunting and supernatural murder of a local clergyman's wife. Then 18-year-old Mary Dunbar suffered vi...
10 Mar 202544min
Robert Dudley: Elizabeth I's Forbidden Love
Passion, scandal, and power collided in the tumultuous relationship between Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley. Rumours of secret trysts between them set the court ablaze, but their love was doomed from t...
6 Mar 202558min
Shakespeare's Daughter, Judith
The brief life of William Shakespeare's son Hamnet is now quite well known, thanks to Maggie O'Farrell's novel, but Hamnet also had a twin sister Judith, who outlived her brother by many decades. Now ...
3 Mar 202536min
The Great Siege of Malta
What happens when a small island faces the might of the Ottoman Empire?In 1565, Malta was the setting for a brutal clash between the forces of the Ottoman Empire and the defiant Knights of the Order o...
27 Feb 202549min
How to Run a Stuart Household
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb delves into the world of Stuart-era recipe books, in which medicine, cookery and women's roles combine in fascinating ways. She discovers how these volumes were far more th...
24 Feb 202535min
