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Please welcome Dr Elizabeth Norton back on the show, and let's talk about the female monarchs of the ages.

Did you know the last elected female head of state is still alive? Did you know there exists …

Please welcome to our 175th episode, which is also falls on our TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

The playwright Liz Duffy Adams is on the podcast and today we’re talking about her play - Born with Teeth, current…

Please welcome Dan E Parkes back to the podcast, the author of Titanic Legacy: The Captain, the Daughter and the Spy with Amberley Publishing. He also has a Youtube channel called Captain Titanic whe…

Please welcome historian Susan Abernethy to the show, and we’ll be talking about her fabulous new book - Charles II’s Portuguese Queen: The Legacy of Catherine of Braganza, published by Pen & Sword.

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Today we have a very special episode: we have the writers and co-producer of the new musical The Queen is Mad about the rise and fall of Juana of Castile, the elder sister to Katharine of Aragon and …

Today we're taking a peak behind the veil or behind the plank rather, of the new exhibition about Pirates at the National Maritime Museum in London.

Let's find out what inspired this new display, and …

Anne Boleyn: The Musical has just opened at Hever Castle, so let's talk to Rebecca Night, who wrote its book and co-wrote its lyrics.

Why is it important to tell Anne's story in her childhood home? Wh…

Please welcome Dr Thomas W Smith and we’re going to talk about the epistolary culture in the middle ages and how can we relate to it today.

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We continue our #MightyMargarets series!

Today we present to you our chat with Linda Porter about her book The Thistle and The Rose published by Head of Zeus, which tells the story of Margaret Tudor, …

Dear listener, Today we present to you our chat with PETER JAMES BOWMAN, the author of The Real Persuasion: Portrait of a Real-Life Jane Austen Heroine, published with Amberley. 

The book is a non-fic…

Today we start a new series, dedicated to Blighty’s great historic locations - today we talk to the lovely Georgina who works at Hatfield House, a gorgeous historic manor found in Hertfordshire, famo…

Today we sit down with illustrator, actor, playwright and producer Laura Crow to talk about her new project Vile, The Tudor Play.

This delicious production looks at the story of Jane Parker, a.k.a. Ja…

Good news - The New York Times Best-selling author JOHN MATTHEWS is back on the show, this time we’ll be talking about The Book of Merlin: Magic, Legend and History, published by Amberley.

Who was Mer…

Please welcome historian Anna Whitelock and we’ll be talking today about her fabulous new book - The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain, published by Bloomsbury (UK) & Viking Press …

Have you ever heard of Russian Jews seeking new life in Galveston, Texas, after the pogroms in Imperial Russia? Now you have.

Today we talk to Rachel Cockerell, whose ancestor was responsible for this…

We continue our #MightyMargarets series!

Good news! Lauren Johnson is back on the podcast, this time we’re talking about the great Tudor matriarch - Margaret Beaufort, the subject of Lauren’s upcoming…

We chat with Dr Joanne Paul about her new book - Thomas More: Life and Death in Tudor England. (published by Penguin in UK and Simon and Schuster in USA).

Please pour yourself a cup of Countess Grey a…

This year we’re celebrating 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen.

Today we sit down with John Mullan about his book What Matters in Jane Austen?, which has just been re-released by Bloomsbury…

Today is the anniversary of the First Battle of St Albans, which was fought in 1455, making it the first battle of the Wars of the Roses; and to talk about it today our guest is Jackson van Uden. 

Wel…

Welcome to a new episode of our #StuartSpring series. 

We’l be talking to Steven Veerapen about his book on ANNA OF DENMARK, wife to James VI and I. Anna married James in 1589, thus becoming Queen Con…