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
Tudor History Challenge IV
Hello, Claire here! I'm celebrating reaching 25,000 YouTube subscribers today by having a bit of fun at Tim's expense, although I am allowing Henry VIII and William Shakespeare to help him a bit.
Pla…
July 31 - A young Elizabeth writes to Catherine Parr
On this day in Tudor history, 31st July 1544 and 1548, the future Queen Elizabeth I wrote letters to her stepmother, Catherine Parr.
The letters were written at very different times in Elizabeth's li…
July 30 - Reformers and Catholics executed on the same day!
July 29 - Mary, Queen of Scots, gets married (again)
July 28 - Fifth time lucky for Henry VIII
On this day in Tudor history 28th July 1540, King Henry VIII tried his luck for a fifth time and married his former wife's maid of honour, the young Catherine Howard. Surely, she was the one!
In toda…
July 27 - Robert Dudley sends an invitation of Queen Elizabeth I
On this day in Tudor history, 27th July 1588, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, wrote to his queen with an invitation. He was intent on keeping the queen, the woman he loved, out of harm's way.
Clair…
July 26 - Preparations for the Spanish Armada
On this day in Tudor history, 26th July 1588, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 4,000 men assembled at Tilbury Fort in an effort to prevent the Spanish Armada from travelling up the Thames and attac…
July 25 - Mary I gets married
On this day in Tudor history, 25 July 1554, on the Feast of St James, Queen Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII by Catherine of Aragon, his first wife, married Philip of Spain, son of Charles V, Holy Roma…
July 24 - Mary, Queen of Scots abdicates
July 23 - Henry Carey, son of Mary Boleyn
July 22 - The death of Henry Fitzroy, Henry VIII's illegitimate son
July 21 - The Isle of Wight is attacked!
July 20 - John Knox's attack on Mary I
July 19 - Mary I is proclaimed queen!
July 18 - Edmund Dudley, the false traitor
July 17 - The Dartford Martyrs
On this day in Tudor history, 17th July 1555, Protestant martyrs Christopher Wade (Waid) of Dartford, linen-weaver, and Margaret, or Margery, Polley, a widow from Pepenbury, Tunbridge, were burned at…
July 16 - Anne Askew's courageous end
On this day in Tudor history, 16th July 1546, in the reign of King Henry VIII, Protestant martyrs Anne Askew, John Lascelles, John Adams and Nicholas Belenian were burned at the stake at Smithfield i…
July 15 - The tide turns from Jane to Mary
This day in Tudor history, 15th July 1553, was a key point in the events of summer 1553. For it was on this day that royal ships, ships that were supposed to be Queen Jane's and who were guarding the…
July 14 - The Brandon boys are no more