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Tudor Minute October 10 – Smallpox Strikes Again
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for October 10. Today in 1562, 29 year old Elizabeth I got a bad cold. It was actually smallpox. At first she didn’t believe that she could actually get smallpox, which was a highly…
Tudor Minute October 9 – Happy Anniversary Mary Tudor
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for October 9. Today in 1514 Mary Tudor, Henry VIII’s sister, married Louis XII of France. She was 18, and he was 52. Mary was born in 1496, and she was reported to have…
Tudor Minute October 8: Happy Birthday Margaret Douglas
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for October 8. Today is the birthday, in 1515, of Henry VIII’s niece, Lady Margaret Douglas. Margaret was the daughter of the Scottish queen dowager Margaret Tudor and her second husband Archibald Douglas, 6th…
Tudor Minute October 5: RIP Edward Wotton
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for October 5. Today in 1555 Edward Wotten died. He was an English doctor who was born in Oxford, and he is remembered for starting the modern study of zoology. He separated out much…
Tudor Minute October 4: Cleves and Henry work out a marriage contract
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for October 4. Today in 1539 England and Cleves signed the marriage treaty between Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves. Henry’s third wife, Jane Seymour, had died in childbirth two years earlier, and it…
Tudor Minute October 3: The Tudors celebrate the Treaty of London
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for October 3. Today in 1518 the Tudor Court celebrated the Treaty of London, a treaty of Universal Peace agreed between the leading European nations, and called for non-aggression as well as coming to…
Tudor Minute October 2: Happy Birthday Richard III
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for October 2. Today in 1452 Richard Plantagenet, the future Richard III, was born. He was the last Plantagenet king, usurping his brother’s throne in 1483 because he claimed that his brother, Edward VI’s…
Tudor Minute October 1: England Gets a Queen Regnant
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for October 1. Today in 1553 Mary Tudor was crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey. At the start of her reign, Mary was very popular – she had the support of the people…
Episode 110: Arthur Tudor
Book Recommendation: Prince Arthur: The Tudor King who Never Was by Dr Sean Cunningham The 1976 book The Alteration by Kingsley Amis imagines a world in which Arthur became King, and the Reformation never happened. It’s a really interesting read. ROUGH TRANSCRIPT (but first, a request for support: Remember, if you like this…
Tudor Minute September 28: Mary Tudor Arrives at the Tower
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Tudor Minute September 27: Katherine Sets Sail
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for September 27. Today in 1501 Katherine of Aragon set sail from Laredo Spain to go to England and marry Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales. It was actually the second attempt at sailing. After…
Tudor Minute September 26: Francis Drake Returns Home
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for September 26. Today in 1580 Francis Drake arrived back in Plymouth on the Golden Hind. He had successfully circumnavigated the globe, the first English explorer to do so, on a journey that took…