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 exciting time.
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- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 491
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2025
Episode 084: Elizabethan Astronomy
A look at the astronomical scene in 16th century England, as well as how people reacted to the new ideas discovered by Copernicus. Remember to check Englandcast.com for show notes, book recommendatio…
00:29:09 |
Fri 01 Sep 2017
Episode 083: Tudor Times on Mary Sidney
In this episode, Melita of Tudor Times talks with us about Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, writer, poet, and enigma about whom very little is known. She pieces together what there is available to …
00:32:33 |
Tue 15 Aug 2017
Episode 082: Tudor Choniclers
So much of Tudor history is the convergence of new technologies and ideas that radically changed society as they were implemented. One example of that is the way the Tudors wrote their history. Not j…
00:23:41 |
Mon 31 Jul 2017
Episode 081: Tudor Times on Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury
Margaret Pole led a life filled with ups and downs. Born into life as the niece of the King, she ended her life almost 70 years later at the hands of an inexperienced executioner, thanks to Henry VII…
00:28:51 |
Mon 17 Jul 2017
Episode 080 The Great Tudor Bake Along
This episode is a little non traditional. It's a bake along wherein Hannah, my three year old, and I make Tudor Jumbles. It was a bit scattered, so do please check out the show notes at EnglandCast.c…
00:26:16 |
Mon 03 Jul 2017
Episode 079: An Interview with Roland Hui
Roland Hui is an art historian and the author of a new book on the Tudor Queens called The Turbulent Crown. We talked about the newly discovered painting of Anne Boleyn, and his book, as well as debu…
00:41:01 |
Fri 16 Jun 2017
Episode 078: Tudor Times on John Knox
John Knox is one of the pillars of the mid 16th century Protestant movement, and has become known as one of the most famous Marian Exiles. See the show notes and transcript at Englandcast.com. Rememb…
00:32:16 |
Fri 02 Jun 2017
Episode 077: Crime and Punishment
Episode 077 of the Renaissance English History Podcast is about Tudor Crime and Punishment. What was considered a crime? What would your punishment be if you were convicted of a crime? Learn more, an…
00:17:50 |
Thu 18 May 2017
Episode 076: Alison Weir on Anne Boleyn
What a thrill it was to speak with Alison Weir for the second time about her new book on Anne Boleyn. The second in the new Six Tudor Queens series, this is historical fiction firmly rooted in resear…
00:22:42 |
Tue 09 May 2017
Episode 075: Elizabeth and France
The 75th episode is spent talking about Elizabeth I and her relationship with France, which was complicated and messy, just like other Tudor monarchs'. Remember that the best thing you can do to supp…
00:11:50 |
Wed 03 May 2017
Episode 074: Edward, Mary, and France
Episode 074 is the continuing look at how our Tudor Monarchs related to France. Edward made war, Mary lost Calais. If you like this show, please leave a rating on iTunes. And go to Englandcast.com fo…
00:15:55 |
Thu 20 Apr 2017
Episode 073: Tudor Times on Elizabeth of York
In Episode 073 of the Renaissance English History Podcast I talk with Melita Thomas of Tudor Times about Elizabeth of York, uniter of the York and Lancaster houses. Get links and resources at England…
00:34:03 |
Fri 24 Mar 2017
Episode 072: Glenn Richardson on the Field of Cloth of Gold
The Field of Cloth of Gold is one of the most famous foreign policy events in Henry VIII's reign, and it has stayed with us in part because of its amazing pageantry. Glenn Richardson is a professor o…
00:40:34 |
Thu 16 Mar 2017
Episode 071: Henry VIII and France
In this continuing look at the Tudors and their relationship with France, I take a look at Henry VIII, who came to the throne wanting to emulate his hero Henry V, and recapture all the lands won duri…
00:20:24 |
Tue 07 Mar 2017
Episode 070: Tudor Times on John Dudley
In this episode Melita Thomas talks about their February Person of the Month, John Dudley. He's (in)famous as the mastermind behind the Lady Jane Grey plot (which got them all killed, so didn't work …
00:22:32 |
Sun 26 Feb 2017
Episode 069: Supplemental - chat episode with James Boulton on Katherine of Aragon
This is a supplemental episode that was a chat between James Boulton (Queens of England Podcast) and me, about Katherine of Aragon. The sound is subpar - it was a bad Skype day - but the content is g…
00:44:13 |
Thu 23 Feb 2017
Episode 068: Black Tudors
It's Black History Month in North America, and in honor of that, I am going out of the planned narrative of war with France, and doing this episode on the black Tudor experience. There have been blac…
00:22:40 |
Sat 18 Feb 2017
Episode 067: Henry VII and Foreign Policy (with an emphasis on France)
Starting off the new year with several episodes on Tudor relations with France, this episode looks at the beginning of the beginning - the foreign policy of Henry VII. There's some great music as wel…
00:25:00 |
Sat 04 Feb 2017
Episode 066: Reconsidering Tudor History
In this episode of the Renaissance English History Podcast, Erik and Xander from the Reconsider Podcast stop by and we talk about how our biases and beliefs influence how we perceive and study histor…
00:41:51 |
Mon 09 Jan 2017
Episode 065: Cosmetics and Makeup (aka indulging my inner girly girl)
How did ladies get made up in the 16th century? Why, with lead, madder, and egg whites, of course! Brush off those bare minerals, and let's talk about henna hair dye, kohl mascara, and plucking our h…
00:15:30 |
Thu 29 Dec 2016
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