How the Tudors Told Time
How time passes - or how it is understood to pass - itself has a fascinating history. For the Tudors, the uneven hours of the Medieval reckoning were cast aside for an age of mechanical clocks and wat...
3 Mar 20220s
Same-Sex Marriages in Renaissance Rome
All this month on the History Hit family of podcasts, we've been marking LGBT+ History Month. To round off the month, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb investigates an extraordinary episode, long denied by ...
28 Feb 202248min
Oliver Cromwell's Wife and Daughters
How can women be reinstated into the narrative of history when their presence is only faintly attested to in the remaining sources? How can fiction help us in imagining their lives? Is it legitimate t...
24 Feb 202240min
Escaping Slavery in London
In 1655, White Londoners began advertising in newspapers to retrieve enslaved people who had escaped. Groundbreaking research is bringing to light for the first time these stories of resistance by ens...
21 Feb 202240min
Women's Work in 17th Century London
In the late 17th century, young women arrived in London to earn their own living, with mistresses setting up shops and supervising female apprentices. Recent groundbreaking research reveals the extent...
17 Feb 202248min
The Glencoe Massacre
In the early hours of 13 February 1692, in the rugged and beautiful mountains of Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands, some 30 members and associates of Clan MacDonald were massacred by the Scottish army...
14 Feb 202237min
Kateryn Parr: Henry VIII's Sixth Queen
Kateryn Parr - as she herself wrote her name - is often portrayed as a colourless, prudish figure, known mainly for surviving her marriage to King Henry VIII. But Parr's life reads like a Renaissance ...
10 Feb 202247min
Travel in the Ming Dynasty
Around the same time as the Mayflower was landing at Cape Cod, on the other side of the world tourism was thriving in China, giving rise to a fascinating genre of travel writing.To mark the start of t...
7 Feb 202235min
