John Donne: England’s Greatest Love Poet
John Donne was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. He converted from Catho...
17 Apr 202347min
Willoughbyland: England's Lost Colony
When Sir Walter Raleigh set out to South America to find the legendary city of El Dorado, he paved the way for a series of adventurers who would struggle against the harsh reality of South America’s w...
13 Apr 202338min
Catherine Howard: Henry VIII's Fifth Wife
Catherine Howard was Queen Consort - and fifth wife - to Henry VIII for just 16 months before he had her executed for treason for committing adultery. Since Victorian times, historians have labelled h...
10 Apr 202352min
Mary, Queen of Scots on Film: Historians’ Verdict
What do you get when you bring together five top historians to debate Mary, Queen of Scots on film? History with the gloves off - our second special episode of Not Just the Tudors Lates! This time, Pr...
6 Apr 202333min
Creator of Don Quixote: Cervantes
In the early 17th century, an aged veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off ...
3 Apr 202341min
How People Died in 16th Century London
In one week in London in September, 1665, no fewer than 47 different causes of death were reported, including consumption, fever, dropsy, being frightened, grief, worms, vomiting, and plague. We know ...
30 Mar 202336min
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Renaissance Painter
During a time of increasing religious and political conflict, Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s paintings portrayed work and pleasure, rituals and festivals of peasant life, and biblical scenes - all in star...
27 Mar 202338min
17th Century Revolutionary England
In the 17th Century, people experienced major social and economic problems that intertwined with religious disagreements and political debates. The turbulence led to civil war, the execution of King C...
23 Mar 202343min
