Some New Year News and the death of a king
Happy New Year! Today, Claire explains what you can expect from her in 2021. Don't worry, it's still lots of Tudor history for you, but she's mixing things up a bit. Claire also talks about King L...
31 Dec 20207min
December 31 - "The Gunner" Sir William Skeffington
On this day in Tudor history, 31st December 1535, in the reign of Henry VIII, Sir William Skeffington, Lord Deputy of Ireland, died at Kilmainham in Dublin. Skeffington had become known as "the Gunn...
30 Dec 20206min
December 30 - An outlaw scholar from Spain who died of the plague
On this day in Tudor history, 30th December 1552, in the reign of King Edward VI, Spanish humanist scholar, translator, author and Protestant apologist, Francisco de Enzinas died at Strasbourg from th...
29 Dec 20207min
December 29 - Elizabeth I's rogue and champion
On this day in history, 29th December 1605, in the reign of King James I, forty-seven-year-old Tudor nobleman George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Skipton, Yorksh...
28 Dec 20208min
December 28 - A Lord Keeper of the Great Seal who supported learning
On this day in Tudor history, the feast of Childermas, 28th December 1510, lawyer, administrator and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Sir Nicholas Bacon, was born. Bacon was the father of the famous phi...
27 Dec 20207min
December 27 - Katherine Killigrew, "the Muses friend, and saint of Heav’n"
On this day in Tudor history, 27th December 1583, scholar and Puritan Katherine Killigrew died after giving birth to a stillborn child. Katherine was the daughter of renowned humanist and scholar, ...
26 Dec 20204min
December 26 - The interesting life of Rose Lok
On this day in Tudor history, 26th December 1526, Protestant Rose Lok was born. Rose lived well into her 80s and had an interesting life, being a Protestant exile, a businesswoman, and being the da...
25 Dec 20205min
December 25 - A Tudor witch-hunter
Happy Christmas! On this day in Tudor history, 25th December 1587, Brian Darcy, magistrate, Sheriff of Essex, witch-hunter and contributor to the 1582 “A true and just recorde of the information, ex...
24 Dec 20205min
