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Harmonycast Episode 02: The Coventry Carol
PDF of the score from the Choral Public Domain Library http://www0.cpdl.org/wiki/images/c/cb/Anonymous-Coventry_Carol.pdf Buy on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-coventry-carol/id93147164?i=93146716
New Podcast: HarmonyCast
Harmonycast – the podcast about music and history – weekly short snippets about a piece of awesome choral music (generally 16th century) and the history behind it. Episode 01 is about William Byrd’s Ave Verum Corpus. Get the PDF of the score here, through the Choral Public Domain Library:…
Watching the Tudors Episode 9: Look to God First
Was Catherine a virgin? http://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/2012/09/20/did-arthur-prince-of-wales-consummate-his-marriage-to-catherine-of-aragon/ Henry’s manuscripts in the British Library http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item101064.html Henry’s music appears on this album (among others) https://open.spotify.com/album/6oxVrDl9V9ScIeH9EDK0fD Anne and Protestantism http://supremacyandsurvival.blogspot.com.es/2010/05/question-of-influence-anne-boleyn-and.html More Watching
Episode 071: Henry VIII foreign policy
TRANSCRIPT BELOW Remember, if you like this show, there are two main ways you can support it. First (and free!) you can leave a review on iTunes. It really helps new people discover the show. Second, you can support the show financially by becoming a patron on Patreon for as…
Episode 070: Tudor Times on John Dudley
Episode 070 of the Renaissance English History Podcast was with Tudor Times on John Dudley. This episode is the regular monthly feature with Tudor Times on their Person of the Month, John Dudley. Famous as the Tudor Villain who masterminded the plot to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne…
Watching the Tudors Episode 8. See you in court.
Episode intro and outro music credit http://www.jsayles.com/familypages/earlymusic.htm Read more about Katherine’s impassioned speech to the legatine court https://queentohistory.com/2015/06/21/21st-june-1529-catherine-of-aragons-famous-speech/ This 19th-century painting, by Henry Nelson O’Neil, provides the artist’s interpretation of Catherine of Aragon pleading her case against divorce from Henry VIII.
Episode 69: Supplemental – Chat with James Boulton on Katherine of Aragon
One of my favorite podcasts is James Boulton’s Queens of England Podcast, which goes through chronologically from the Conquest talking about the women who were Queen. He was gracious enough to do a guest episode for me last year on Henry VIII’s mistresses, which you may recall (listen here!). He’s…
Black Tudor History
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 Black Tudors, and the experience of life for black people in Tudor England. For those of you who prefer reading over…
Episode 066: Reconsidering
Everyone has biases and lenses through which they view current events. But what about history? Those events already happened, so clearly there’s no biases when you’re just looking at old facts, right? Right? Not so much. In this podcast the gentlemen from the Reconsider Podcast (Erik and Xander) stop by…
Episode 064: Bess of Hardwick
Listen to the October 2015 podcast episode about Bess’s life if you need a refresher Book Recommendations: Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder (Amazon Affiliate Link) Bess of Hardwick First Lady of Chatsworth (Amazon Affiliate Link) December 2016 Episode with Tudor Times:
Episode 063: Linda Porter
I was happy to speak with Linda Porter, author of several really great books (listed below) and was a consultant on the new Six Wives series on BBC One. Thanks to Linda and her publisher for giving away three copies of her new book to three winners. Enter here for…
Episode 62: Printing from Caxton to Shakespeare
Episode 62 is focused on the growth of printing, and what that meant for reading, religion, and education in the 16th century. Remember that I’ve done shows on specific topics within this, including Tudor Poets, a mini series with three episodes on the Theater, and William Caxton, who first brought…