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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The King in the Mill: The Strange Death of James III
In the summer of 1488, a King of Scots lay dying in a flour mill, allegedly murdered by a man disguised as a priest. But how did James III - a man who...
What Was Wolsey Thinking? The Slow, Fatal Unraveling of Henry VIII’s Greatest Minister
At the height of his power, Thomas Wolsey stood at the center of Europe’s grandest spectacle - the Field of Cloth of Gold. Ten years later, he was alo...
What If Elizabeth I Had Married Early? One Decision That Changes Everything
Elizabeth I’s decision not to marry shaped the entire character of her reign. But what if she had chosen differently, early on, when the pressure was...
A Monster Winter Storm, Tudor Style: How People Coped Without Forecasts
As a major winter storm is hitting much of the United States, it’s hard not to think about how dependent we are on forecasts, alerts, and advance warn...
What Was Katharine Parr Thinking? The Conversation That Almost Got Her Arrested
In the final years of Henry VIII’s reign, even conversation could be dangerous.
Katharine Parr was not simply a dutiful queen consort. Sh...
How to Die in Tudor England
When we think about death in Tudor England, we usually picture executions, plague, or war. But for most people living in 16th-century England, death c...
What If Anne Boleyn Had Become Henry VIII’s Mistress Instead of Queen?
What if Anne Boleyn had agreed to become Henry VIII’s mistress instead of his queen? This thought experiment explores how a single private decision mi...
The Forgotten History of Breakfast (The Tudors Didn’t Eat It Like We Do)
Breakfast feels ancient. It isn’t. In Tudor England, breakfast was optional, lightly eaten, and sometimes frowned upon. No bacon, no eggs, no fixed ho...
Episode 323: What the Tudors Really Thought About History
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The Tudors did not see history as distant or neutral. They believed...
Thomas Cromwell in 1540: The Year He Knew He Was Finished
In early 1540, Thomas Cromwell was still powerful, but he knew something had shifted.
Today we look at the final year before Cromwell’s fall, no...
The One Choice That Could Have Changed Tudor England Forever
What if Catherine of Aragon had agreed to an annulment in 1527?
Today we explore a Tudor what-if with enormous consequences. If Catherine...
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[YouTube Drop] A Day in the life of a Yeoman Farmer
In this minicast, we spend twenty-four hours with a yeoman farmer and his family, the solid middle of Tudor society. From waking before dawn to fieldw...
A Tudorcon 2025 Talk: The Magic of Holbein
This talk was recorded live at Tudorcon 2025.
In this lecture, Mallory Jackson explores the work of Hans Holbein the Younger, the artist whose p...
Juana of Castile: The Queen Who Was Never Allowed to Rule
Juana of Castile is remembered by history as “Juana the Mad,” but that label explains far less than it hides. In this episode, we step away from biogr...
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[YouTube Drop] Henry Beaufort
Henry Beaufort is rarely the most famous Beaufort, but he may have been the most influential.
A son of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, Bea...
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[YouTube Drop] Three Twelfth Nights at the Tudor Court (1512–1582)
At the Tudor court, Twelfth Night was more than the end of Christmas. Using specific recorded celebrations from across the sixteenth century, this min...
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[YouTube Drop] Henry VIII Did Pardon People.
Henry VIII is famous for executions, but he did issue pardons; rarely, strategically, and always on his own terms. Starting with the pardon of Geoffre...
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[YouTube Drop] Henry's Abraham Tapestries
When you step into the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace, the walls tell a story. In this minicast, we explore Henry VIII’s Abraham tapestries: vast,...
A Tour of Tudor York
This tour of Tudor York was originally a Members Only video from two years ago. I’m making it public today so everyone can explore it. Patrons and cha...
Christmas Eve with the Tudors | Winter Traditions, Feasting & Faith
Because it’s Christmas Eve, I’m taking the day to be with family. In place of something new, this episode brings together several Christmas and winter...
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[YouTube Drop] Terms of Adornment with Terry Jones
This episode features a live Tudorcon talk by Terry Jones, longtime docent at Agecroft Hall, exploring how jewelry functioned in Tudor and early Stuar...
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[YouTube Drop] The Letter That Took 383 Years
In 1602, Elizabeth I wrote a formal letter to the Emperor of China, hoping to open peaceful trade between their two realms. The letter was sent with a...
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[YouTube Drop] Tudor Justice After the Verdict
Yesterday we chatted about how crimes were solved. Today, we look at convictions.
What happened after conviction in Tudor England? This minicas...
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[YouTube Drop] Who Solved Crimes in Tudor England?
How did Tudor England solve crimes without police or forensic science? This episode explores how murder and suspicion were investigated through commun...
Episode 321: The Tudor Body: Health, Illness, and Balance in Tudor England
The Christmas Character quiz is here: https://www.englandcast.com/christmas-character-quiz/ - I'd love to see what you got!
And the ecard site i...
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[YouTube Drop] A “Lady Jane Grey” Portrait That Isn’t Jane Grey at All
For more than three centuries, a restrained Tudor portrait was confidently labeled as Lady Jane Grey. But the woman in the painting is almost certainl...
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[YouTube Drop] Bad meat, or poison?
Poison was the rumor that never died in Tudor England. In this episode, we look at the deaths that Tudor contemporaries believed were “too convenient”...
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...
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[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...
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[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...
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[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...
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[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...
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[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...