Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors
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Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors
Renaissance England was a bustling and exciting place...new religion! break with rome! wars with Scotland! And France! And Spain! The birth of the modern world! In this weekly podcast I'll explore one aspect of life in 16th century England that will give you a deeper understanding of this most excit...
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Episode 320: Lady Margaret Douglas
Margaret Douglas, niece of Henry VIII, spent her entire life at the center of Tudor politics. In this episode I look at her childhood in the royal nur...
More Tudor True Crime
Tudor England loved true crime just as much as we do today. In this episode, we look at a few cases that gripped 16th-century audiences: the 1551 murd...
![[YouTube Drop] The Tudor Advent Fast](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/60edc3598a822b6646c6cd77/1765208839450-16600130-86f6-4bda-a065-84db7ba58e11.jpeg)
[YouTube Drop] The Tudor Advent Fast
Intermittent fasting might feel like a modern idea, but Tudor England practiced a full winter fast during Advent. People cut out meat and dairy, relie...
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[YouTube Drop] What did the Privy Council actually do?
Today we’re looking at the Privy Council and the work it handled behind the scenes in Tudor England. This small group managed intelligence, arrests, f...
Episode 319: The Vaux Family
In this episode, we trace the Vaux family from their Lancastrian beginnings in the fifteenth century to their role in the Catholic underground during...
![[YouTube Drop] The Story of Mabel Bagenal](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/60edc3598a822b6646c6cd77/1764704188504-053fab26-2b43-4285-b5ea-286540e7ebd4.jpeg)
[YouTube Drop] The Story of Mabel Bagenal
In 1591, Mabel Bagenal defied her powerful English family and secretly married Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone. Their relationship became one of the most...
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[YouTube Drop] Tudor Lady Knights
Today we’re looking at the Tudor-era women who stepped into roles normally reserved for knights, from Grace O’Malley leading a fleet on the Irish coas...
![[YouTube Drop] True Crime, Tudor-Style](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/60edc3598a822b6646c6cd77/1764435278377-76708366-4aa2-4881-9ac4-dc35dfe1e62d.jpeg)
[YouTube Drop] True Crime, Tudor-Style
Today we’re looking at the closest thing Tudor England had to newspapers: the crime pamphlets that reported real murders, scandals, and witchcraft cas...
![[YouTube Drop] Mummers, Mischief, and Twelve Days of Tudor Christmas](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/60edc3598a822b6646c6cd77/1764364814287-15d21709-6ca4-43d2-8092-c16ab414d0b1.jpeg)
[YouTube Drop] Mummers, Mischief, and Twelve Days of Tudor Christmas
In this session from Tudorcon 2025 Sarah Pixley Papandrea from Agecroft Hall breaks down the real twelve-day Christmas season of Tudor England, from m...
Episode 318: Jane Lumley: The Tudor Woman Who Translated Euripides and Shaped Two Great Families
In this episode, we explore the life of Jane Lumley, a Tudor noblewoman whose translations made her one of the earliest female scholars in English lit...
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[YouTube Drop] The Black Prince & the Fair Maid of Kent
Edward the Black Prince was Europe’s most celebrated warrior. Joan of Kent was already notorious for one secret marriage and an accidental second one...
![[YouTube Drop] The Bonkers Plot to Blow Up Elizabeth I’s Bed](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/60edc3598a822b6646c6cd77/1764020026935-24fd77e8-d390-4396-9984-332d724fd7ea.jpeg)
[YouTube Drop] The Bonkers Plot to Blow Up Elizabeth I’s Bed
In 1586, William Stafford proposed one of the strangest assassination ideas of Elizabeth I’s reign: blowing up the queen’s bed while she slept, even t...
Episode 317: The Clinton Family of Baddesley Clinton
Baddesley Clinton looks calm today, but the families who lived there left behind a long trail of drama. This episode follows the Clintons, the fiery B...
Forget the Deathbed Myth: Tracy Borman on Elizabeth I, James VI, and The Stolen Crown
Did Elizabeth I actually name James VI of Scotland as her heir? Historian Dr. Tracy Borman joins me to talk about her new book, The Stolen Crown, and...
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[YouTube Drop] The Tudor Vagabond with the Forged Passport
In 1596, a young man crossed England with a passport so convincing that constables let him pass from county to county without a second glance. The pro...
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[YouTube Drop] Tudor Hygiene Myths
Today we’re looking at what Tudor people actually did to stay clean. From linen “dry baths” and herbal wash water to tooth powders made from salt, sag...
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[YouTube Drop] License to Travel
Today we’re looking at what a “passport” meant in Tudor England. There were no little booklets, but anyone leaving the kingdom needed royal permission...
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[YouTube Drop] What Did the Tudor Gentry Actually Do?
The other day we looked at the nobility and what they did - today, a look at the gentry, the thousands of families who handled the everyday work of ru...
Episode 316: The Blounts of Mountjoy
The Blounts of Mountjoy were everywhere in Tudor England, from Bessie Blount, Henry VIII’s mistress and mother of his only acknowledged son, to Charle...
![[YouTube Drop] The Secret Marriage That Sent Walter Raleigh to the Tower](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/60edc3598a822b6646c6cd77/1762897933360-13372484-a3b4-4ef0-9573-fe9de0f4475f.jpeg)
[YouTube Drop] The Secret Marriage That Sent Walter Raleigh to the Tower
In 1592, Queen Elizabeth’s favorite, Sir Walter Raleigh, and her maid of honour, Bess Throckmorton, were sent to the Tower - not for treason, but for...
![[YouTube Drop] What Did the Nobility Actually Do in Tudor England?](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/60edc3598a822b6646c6cd77/1762793510288-01f5154e-81ab-4ea5-9a37-b943b281ef13.jpeg)
[YouTube Drop] What Did the Nobility Actually Do in Tudor England?
Ever wonder what a Tudor duke actually did all day? In this minicast, we dig into the real jobs of England’s nobles, landlords, courtiers, commanders,...
![[YouTube Drop] The Woman Who Escaped the Tower of London](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/60edc3598a822b6646c6cd77/1762463562416-3ffea4cf-c41d-4e52-abc1-b89d64f88d5e.jpeg)
[YouTube Drop] The Woman Who Escaped the Tower of London
In 1533, a woman named Alice Tankerville pulled off one of the boldest acts in Tudor history, escaping from the Tower of London. Accused of piracy and...
Episode 315: The Russell Dukes of Bedford
The Russell family - future Dukes of Bedford - rose from obscure West Country gentry to the heights of Tudor power. Starting with John Russell, a trus...
Minicast: Six Myths about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
Think you know the story of Guy Fawkes? Think again. In this mini episode, we’re uncovering six myths about the Gunpowder Plot, from who really led it...
![[YouTube Drop] The Faces of Power](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/60edc3598a822b6646c6cd77/1762278477930-a4d37858-7eb8-48a2-bc32-baafbf568857.jpeg)
[YouTube Drop] The Faces of Power
In Tudor England, portraits became more than decoration, they were tools of influence. This minicast explores how Renaissance humanism brought individ...
![[YouTube Drop] Richard Topcliffe](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/60edc3598a822b6646c6cd77/1762198303175-4955da5a-d5e8-4a46-87ac-59ce403c0e01.jpeg)
[YouTube Drop] Richard Topcliffe
Richard Topcliffe was one of Elizabeth I’s most feared servants - a gentleman who became England’s chief interrogator, hunting Catholic priests in the...
![[YouTube Drop] Medieval and Tudor Witches](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/60edc3598a822b6646c6cd77/1761850056995-f09953b3-05bc-4d3e-aef5-90a7c11d80d1.jpeg)
[YouTube Drop] Medieval and Tudor Witches
This episode looks at the changing face of witchcraft from the Middle Ages through the Tudor and early Stuart eras. We’ll start with royal women accus...
Episode 314: The Queen’s Favorite
He was handsome, ambitious, and despised... accused of being Queen Margaret’s lover and blamed for losing England’s empire in France. When Edmund Beau...
![[YouTube Drop] Tudor Love Potions and Deadly Brews](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/60edc3598a822b6646c6cd77/1761662908322-2824668e-72a9-4862-a3c5-2b674366ba45.jpeg)
[YouTube Drop] Tudor Love Potions and Deadly Brews
In Tudor England, potions promised power, whether to spark desire or to silence rivals. In this spooky Halloween Spooky Week minicast, we’re diving in...
![[YouTube Drop] 👻 Haunted East Anglia](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/60edc3598a822b6646c6cd77/1761592063271-7c8ec5d0-bc00-43d4-b4cd-5a089f0d2924.jpeg)
[YouTube Drop] 👻 Haunted East Anglia
We’re kicking off spooky week with a talk from Tudorcon 2024! Victoria Thompson takes us deep into the haunted landscape of East Anglia; a place of gh...
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]YouTube Drop] Elizabeth Sydenham
Elizabeth Sydenham was the Somerset heiress who married Sir Francis Drake, but only after a meteor crashed through the roof of the church on her first...
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[YouTube Drop] Love, Poison, and Witchcraft
A countess, a court favorite, and a corpse in the Tower.
Frances Howard and Robert Carr’s forbidden love became England’s first celebrity crime,...
Episode 313: The Dudley's
They served every Tudor monarch, and often paid dearly for it.
From their medieval stronghold at Dudley Castle to the heart of the Tudor court,...
![[YouTube Drop] The Nun Who Faked Her Own Death](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/60edc3598a822b6646c6cd77/1761071394922-afd7afbd-7d78-4e64-b799-1627457d4a30.jpeg)
[YouTube Drop] The Nun Who Faked Her Own Death
In 1318, a Yorkshire nun named Joan of Leeds faked her own death to escape convent life, crafting a dummy, staging a burial, and vanishing into the wi...
[YouTube Drop} She Ordered a Priest’s Assassination
In 1337, priest John Forde was murdered on London’s Cheapside in full view of witnesses. Modern research links the killing to Lady Ela Fitzpayne — a n...
![[YouTube Drop] Who Was Nan Cobham?](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/60edc3598a822b6646c6cd77/1760805392339-51567e86-5fe4-46a6-b0ff-c73fb6cf244d.jpeg)
[YouTube Drop] Who Was Nan Cobham?
Nan Cobham appears just once in the historical record, as one of the women who accused Anne Boleyn in 1536...and then disappears without a trace. In t...
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[YouTube Drop] Arthur Dudley
In 1587, a man calling himself Arthur Dudley arrived in Spain and declared that he was the secret son of Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley. Spanish...
Episode 312: Three Who Might Have Ruled
In the early years of Elizabeth I’s reign, the throne was anything but secure. With no husband and no children, three names rose as potential heirs: L...
![[YouTube Drop] Something Different: A Tudor Autumn Romance](https://assets.pippa.io/shows/60edc3598a822b6646c6cd77/1760470984062-582d1908-e9a8-4ca5-8cce-c27e64f8994b.jpeg)
[YouTube Drop] Something Different: A Tudor Autumn Romance
Today’s episode is something a little different: a cozy Hallmark-style Tudor romance set at Michaelmas, complete with cinnamon, parish gossip, and a b...
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[YouTube Drop] Tudor Executions
In this minicast, we’re diving into Tudor justice: the wild world of public punishments that doubled as community entertainment. From “respectable” no...