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Episode 73: Tudor Times on Elizabeth of York

Episode 77 of the Renaissance English History Podcast is an interview with Tudor Times on Elizabeth of York, the mother of Henry VIII. Listen here: Book Recommendations on Elizabeth of York Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World from Alison Weir (Amazon affiliate link) Elizabeth of York: Forgotten Tudor…

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Episode 072: Glenn Richardson on the Field of Cloth of Gold

This episode I spoke with Glenn Richardson, Professor of Early Modern History at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, and author of The Field of Cloth of Gold.                  He also has a series of YouTube videos on Henry VIII – here’s an interesting one:…

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HarmonyCast Episode 03: Now Is the Month of Maying

HarmonyCast is the podcast where each week I look at a particular piece of choral music, and talk about its history, why it’s awesome, and why you might want to check it out. Episode 03 is about Now Is The Month of Maying, which is the first experience with Madrigals…

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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

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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:…

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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

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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