The Tudor Fair Blog
Tudor Minute July 16: RIP Anne Askew
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for July 16. Today Anne Askew was burned at the stake. Anne was a pawn in a plot to implicate suspected Protestant-leaning women at court, including Katherine Parr herself. Anne started off her adult…
Tudor Minute July 13: Happy Birthday John Dee
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for July 13. Today in 1527 John Dee was born. John Dee was at once a mathematician, expert navigator, dabbler in occult philosophy, practicing alchemist, and conjurer of angels. A powerful man who was…
Tudor Minute July 12: Robert Aske executed
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for July 12. Today in 1537 Robert Aske was executed. He was one of the leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace, which spread throughout the north of England, and was the largest rebellion that…
Tudor Minute July 11: Bull!
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for July 11. Today in 1533 Pope Clement VII issued a papal bull excommunicating Henry VIII and ordering him to abandon Anne Boleyn. After years and years of waiting for a papal answer to…
Tudor Minute July 10: William of Orange assasinated
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for July 10. On July 10 in 1584 William of Orange, or William I, was assassinated. He was shot in the chest in his home in Delft by a Catholic. Philip II of Spain…
Tudor Minute July 9: Anne of Cleves isn’t married anymore
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for July 9. Today in 1540 the marriage of Henry VIII and his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves was declared null and void. Just about six months old, Henry’s ministers found that there was…
Episode 107: Football in Tudor England (a World Cup Special)
Episode 107 of the Renaissance English History Podcast is on football (soccer) in Tudor England. Listen in the player above, or read the 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…
Tudor Minute July 6: RIP Thomas More
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for July 6. On this day in 1535 Sir Thomas More was executed on Tower Hill in London. We know More through his humanist writings, including the famous Utopia, but More also acted as…
Tudor Minute July 5: Joan Coney hung as a witch
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for July 5. On July 5 in 1589 Joan Coney was hung as a witch in Chelmsford in Essex. Essex was a county that pursued witchcraft prosecutions more than any other during the 16th…
Tudor Minute July 4: William Byd dies
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for July 4. On July 4, 1623, William Byrd died. William Byrd is affectionately called the Granddaddy of Elizabethan choral music, at least by me. He started his career working under Thomas Tallis,…
Supplemental Episode: Tudor Music Hour Episode 5
In the fifth episode of the Tudor Music Hour, available every Sunday morning at 9am UK time on Mad Wasp Radio, we looked at the music of the Elizabethan Theater, including both instrumental music, and songs. Remember, this is an abbreviated version with 30 second snippets – listen to the…
Tudor Minute July 3: Perkin Warbeck Lands in Kent
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for July 3. Today in Tudor history, in 1495, Perkin Warbeck landed in Deal, in Kent. Perkin Warbeck’s rebellion was one of the biggest threats that the young Tudor dynasty had to fight off…