Chapter 191- The Fire of Westminster (1410-1415)
Henry VIII began his new reign with a desire to earn glory in war- and plunged the nation headlong into an unexpected and large scale war with France, all seemingly driven by his fiery passion to show...
26 Mar 58min
Chapter 190- …and the boy from Putney (A Tale of Two Toms 2) (1500-1512)
Continuing the fascinating tale of the early lives of two of London’s most infamous residents of the time- Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell. Picking up with More a trainee barrister in Lincolns Inn, w...
18 Mar 46min
Chapter 189- The Boy from Cripplegate… (A tale of two Toms 1) (1478-1503)
We take a pause in our narrative to go back a few years to look at the childhoods, and backgrounds of two men from London- both called Thomas, both growing up in and around London (even if their exper...
12 Mar 50min
Chapter 188- Volo (‘I Will’) (1508-1509)
The opening years of the reign of Henry VIII were quite paradoxical; for a king who would become known as a radical, a man who changed the nation so completely as he did, the first years of his reign ...
5 Mar 56min
Chapter 187- The Last Days of Henry VII (1508-1509)
Henry VII was dying… but as the first Tudor monarch slowly drifted towards death, in London the city was stilled gripped by the terrible regime of his loyal lapdog, Edmund Dudley. As the kings health...
25 Feb 50min
Chapter 186- The Spanish Gambit Part 2 (Storms) (1506-1507)
In the second part of ‘The Spanish Gambit’ we start to draw together the diverse threads of this story- Henry VII’s changing foreign policy ambitions, the ambitions of the Hapsburgs, the desperation o...
19 Feb 55min
Chapter 185- The Spanish Gambit (1504-1506) (Part 1)
Towards the end of his reign, Henry VII really came into his own; he stood as a giant on the European stage, a player in THE most dynamic and profound change in European politics in decades, poised to...
12 Feb 51min
Chapter 184- In the shadows of a house on Candlewick Street (1503-1507)
In the dying years of the reign of Henry VII, some big changes happened, which London witnessed and had to cope with. This weeks chapter covers quite a lot- what happened to Catherine of Aragon when ...
4 Feb 55min
