Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

In this episode we continue the tour of the Tudor home, talking about the history of the Living Room, and how chimneys made living rooms possible!

Show notes will be up at englandcast.com/livingroom.

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Who was Kit Marlowe? Spy? Genius? Scholar? All of the above? Let's dive deep into Marlowe's life. Show notes will be up at englandcast.com/asap.

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A year in the life of Elizabethan England - this time we look at 1601. The year of Hamlet. The East India Company's first voyage. Secret correspondence with Scotland. So much good stuff happened this…

Looking through the rooms of the home from the 16th century - this episode looks at the history of how the kitchen changed during the 16th century. From chimneys to ovens, new technology offered new …

In this episode I look at how the Tudors saw their own island's history. Bear with me through the admin - it's been a while since I did a big housekeeping. Then we look at how Brutus of Troy, monasti…

In this episode, I play some favorite Elizabethan Madrigals for May. I didn't want to violate any copyright laws here, so I only play 30 second snippets - for the full playlist go to englandcast.com/…

If you're experiencing summer weather like I am, thinking about the cold winter seems a world away. But this week we're going to head back to January (you know, a simpler time before pandemics and so…

In the 1540's Henry VIII began what economists have called the greatest monetary treason ever committed against citizens. What was this con job? The Great Debasement, when coins went from containing …

About ten years ago I read One Summer by Bill Bryson, which chronicled the summer of 1927 in America. I absolutely adore Bill Bryson anyway, and this book didn't disappoint. I wanted to do something …

In 1531 at the height of Henry VIII's Great Matter, Thomas Elyot, who was a humanist and scholar wrote a small political science book disguised as a treatise on education, extolling the virtues of wi…

It's a day to celebrate love, and romance, and all that mushy stuff. And the 16th century has its share of great love stories (fun fact: the wedding vows that we use today - to have and to hold, in s…

In 1524 Europe was convinced the world was ending. A prophesy foretold of a giant flood. 20,000 people fled London for higher ground. We discuss.

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In this episode we continue our journey around Tudor London, this time venturing out of the city proper to the suburbs around the east and north - Hackney, Islington, Hampstead and Highgate with a wa…

In this episode we continue the journey around Tudor London by walking around the city gates, the walk along the Strand to Westminster, and a little bit on Westminster itself. You can get show notes …

In this second episode in the mini series on Tudor London we talk about London's rivers, and London Bridge. We talk about the rivers that shape London, and life on London Bridge.

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This episode is the first in a mini series on life in Tudor London, and today I give a brief intro to what life was like in the capital during the Tudor period, followed by an exploration of the most…

In this episode we chat about how our Tudor friends traveled. There's this myth that people in medieval and early Modern England didn't travel - that they stayed in their one little area forever, and…

Tony Riches has a new book out about Katherine WIlloughby - in this episode we talk about her life, her relationship with Charles Brandon, and how she put her life back together after the worst trage…

High collars? Flushing toilets? A knitting machine? All inventions the Tudors gave us!

Show notes at englandcast.com/inventions.

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In the past week we celebrated the birth and christening of Elizabeth I, which made me want to dive deeper into the story around her birth. For show notes and book recommendations, go to englandcast.…