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Tudor Minute February 15: No One’s Dying today!
After a few days of trials and beheadings, we celebrate a birth today! Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for February 15. Today in 1564 Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa. He was the son of Vincenzo Galilei, a famous…
Tudor Minute February 14: Nicholas Carew Goes on Trial
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for February 14. Today in 1539 Nicholas Carew was tried for his role in the Exeter Conspiracy, and he would be killed later in March. Carew was a courtier and close friend of Henry…
Episode 097: Shakespeare and Love
It’s Valentine’s Day, and so I thought we would celebrate with some Shakespeare and Love by interviewing Cassidy Cash of That Shakespeare Girl. Grab the free guide she put together just for Renaissance English History Podcast listeners at CassidyCash.com/england-cast. Remember, if you like this show, the best way you…
Tudor Minute, February 13: Katherine Howard Executed
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for February 13. Today in 1542 Katherine Howard and Jane Rochford were executed at the Tower of London. The Imperial Ambassador Eustace Chapuys writes of Katherine, On Sunday the 12th, towards evening, she was…
Tudor Minute February 12
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for February 12. Today in 1554 Lady Jane Grey and her husband Guilford Dudley, were executed at the Tower of London. Jane actually met her husband’s body on the cart as it was…
Tudor Minute February 9
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for February 9. Overnight tonight, into the 10th, Henry Stuart Lord Darnley was killed in Kirk-o-Field, Scotland. He was just a few hundred yards from where Mary and her infant son James were staying,…
Tudor Minute, February 8
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for February 8. Today marks the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. The day before a warrant had arrived for her execution, and she was informed of her sentence. She said she was very…
Tudor Minute, February 7
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for February 7 (Happy birthday mom!). Today is also the birthday – in 1477 or 1478 – of Sir Thomas More, who was a writer, humanist, and became a saint after being martyred…
Tudor Minute, February 6
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for February 6. Today in 1557 we go back to the Marian martyrs as the remains of two reformers – Martin Bucer and Paul Fagius – were exhumed and burned after having been posthumously…
Tudor Minute February 5
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for February 5. February 5, 1556 is when Philip of Spain and Henry of France signed the Treaty of Vaucelles. This was part of the larger Italian War that was going on perpetually in…
This week in Tudor News: February 2 edition
News moves fast. There’s a lot to keep up with. And so, here’s my weekly roundup of news stories that caught my eye this week about our favorite period in history. Listen to this while you read A meditation on truth, lies, fake news, and the Reformation by Andrew…
Tudor Minute: February 2 – James Burbage, a Theater Patron
Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for February 2. Today in 1597 the actor James Burbage was buried in Shoreditch. He is remembered as an actor, but also as an early theater entrepreneur. He built the Theater, an early Elizabethan…