Tudor History with Claire Ridgway
On this day in Tudor history podcasts from Claire Ridgway.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 6 minutes
- Episodes
- 1041
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
December 27 - Katherine Killigrew, "the Muses friend, and saint of Heav’n"
On this day in Tudor history, 27th December 1583, scholar and Puritan Katherine Killigrew died after giving birth to a stillborn child.
Katherine was the daughter of renowned humanist and scholar,…
00:04:34 |
Sat 26 Dec 2020
December 26 - The interesting life of Rose Lok
On this day in Tudor history, 26th December 1526, Protestant Rose Lok was born.
Rose lived well into her 80s and had an interesting life, being a Protestant exile, a businesswoman, and being the d…
00:05:31 |
Fri 25 Dec 2020
December 25 - A Tudor witch-hunter
Happy Christmas!
On this day in Tudor history, 25th December 1587, Brian Darcy, magistrate, Sheriff of Essex, witch-hunter and contributor to the 1582 “A true and just recorde of the information, e…
00:05:05 |
Thu 24 Dec 2020
The Great Tudor Christmas Quiz
Thank you, everyone! I wanted to get a Christmas themed quiz out today so you can enjoy it with your friends and family.
Without further ado, why don't you play along and see if you can do better tha…
00:13:59 |
Thu 24 Dec 2020
December 24 - A man who swapped sides at the right time
On this day in history, 24th December 1604, Christmas Eve, Sir Thomas Cornwallis, Comptroller of the household of Mary I and member of Parliament, died at about the age of eighty-six.
Cornwallis h…
00:08:26 |
Wed 23 Dec 2020
December 23 - Elizabeth I moves to a property her mother knew well
On this day in Tudor history, 23rd December 1558, just over a month after her accession, England’s new queen, Elizabeth I, daughter of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, moved from Som…
00:07:05 |
Tue 22 Dec 2020
December 22 - Two Protestants betrayed by a spy
On this day in Tudor history, 22nd December 1557, Protestant martyrs John Rough and Margaret Mearing, were burnt at Smithfield for heresy.
John Rough was a Scot who'd encouraged John Knox to be a p…
00:11:21 |
Mon 21 Dec 2020
December 21 - St Thomas, pies, charity and India
21st December in Tudor times was the Feast of St Thomas the Apostle, or Didymus or Doubting Thomas. The apostle who wouldn't believe Christ had been resurrected until Christ appeared in front of him …
00:05:35 |
Sun 20 Dec 2020
December 20 - Edward Arden, "victim of a grave iniquity" or conspirator?
On this day in Tudor history, 20th December 1583, the day after his son-in-law, John Somerville, had been found dead in his cell, Warwickshire gentleman Edward Arden was hanged, drawn and quartered a…
00:05:31 |
Sat 19 Dec 2020
December 19 - A conspirator found dead in his cell
On this day in Tudor history, 19th December 1583, twenty-three-year-old convicted conspirator, John Somerville, was found dead in his cell at Newgate Prison. His death was said to be suicide, due to …
00:05:03 |
Fri 18 Dec 2020
December 18 - Nicholas Harpsfield, the sorest and of least compassion
On this day in Tudor history, 18th December 1575, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, fifty-six-year-old historian, Catholic apologist, priest and former Archdeacon of Canterbury, Nicholas Harpsfield…
00:07:07 |
Thu 17 Dec 2020
December 17 - A promise made to Anne Boleyn
On this day in Tudor history, 17th December 1559, fifty-five-year-old Matthew Parker was consecrated as Queen Elizabeth I's Archbishop of Canterbury. It was an office which Parker did not want and wo…
00:07:25 |
Wed 16 Dec 2020
December 16 - A Grey man with Woodville links
On this day in Tudor history, 16th (or possibly the 18th) December 1503, George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, died at Ampthill, Bedfordshire.
Grey served as a soldier under Henry VII, was on the king’s …
00:06:04 |
Tue 15 Dec 2020
December 15 - Elizabeth I's loyal servant dies of "sheer grief"
On this day in Tudor history, 15th December, 1560, Comptroller of the Household to Elizabeth I and Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire, Thomas Parry died. The Spanish ambassador claimed that Parry had died …
00:08:25 |
Mon 14 Dec 2020
December 14 - Mary, Queen of Scots is queen!
On this day in Tudor history, 14th December 1542, six-day-old Mary, daughter of King James V and his second wife, Marie de Guise, became Queen of Scotland – Mary, Queen of Scots.
King James V, who …
00:06:00 |
Sun 13 Dec 2020
December 13 - A lawyer thrown in to prison for refusing to do a favour
On this day in Tudor history, 13th December 1558, civil lawyer and dean of Chester William Clyffe died.
Clyffe was one of the authors of the 1537 “Bishops' Book”, and he was consulted by convocation …
00:04:38 |
Sun 13 Dec 2020
December 12 - A soldier who had to hide from Elizabeth I
On this day in Tudor history, 12th December 1595, Protestant Welsh soldier and author, Sir Roger Williams, died from a fever with his patron, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, at his side. He was burie…
00:08:42 |
Fri 11 Dec 2020
December 11 - A lavish reception for Anne of Cleves
On this day in Tudor history, 11th December 1539, Anne of Cleves and her retinue were received at Gravelines, just a few miles outside of Calais, by Lord Lisle, Deputy of Calais.
Anne of Cleves was…
00:06:22 |
Thu 10 Dec 2020
December 10 - A priest caught by a priestfinder and torturer
On this day in Tudor history, 10th December 1591, Roman Catholic priest Edmund Gennings and Catholic Swithin Wells were executed on a scaffold set up outside Wells' house at Holborn.
Gennings had b…
00:07:03 |
Wed 09 Dec 2020
December 9 - A scary time for Queen Catherine Howard's stepgrandmother
On this day in Tudor history, 9th December 1541, sixty-four-year-old Agnes Tilney, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk and step-grandmother of Queen Catherine Howard, who was being detained at the Lord Ch…
00:12:19 |
Tue 08 Dec 2020
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