The Power of the Royal Mistress

History Today Podcast by Katie Holyoak

Aug 14, 202030:06Society & Culture

In 1660, the Royalist exiles were returning with European languages, manners and culture in tow. Yet, of all the European imports that Charles and his Royalist entourage ferried back to their homeland, it was the courtly...

Related Episodes

Continue listening to more episodes from History Today Podcast.

Medicine Woman

Dec 18, 2020 - 22:03

'Doc' Susan Anderson set out to prove that 'a woman could be a good doctor'. She did so in the most diffi...

The Crown Lost at Sea

Nov 27, 2020 - 31:13

This year marks the 900th anniversary of the worst maritime disaster suffered by the English Crown and, a...

The Wars of the Roses: The Queen who Lost Everything

Nov 13, 2020 - 24:28

In the Wars of the Roses, Margaret is remembered as a warrior queen, the ‘she-wolf of France’. But the me...

Foreign Correspondents in the Soviet Union

Oct 30, 2020 - 33:59

Over the past hundred years, foreign correspondents have been central to the West’s understanding of Russ...

Nagorno-Karabakh’s Myth of Ancient Hatreds

Oct 16, 2020 - 12:58

During the last week of September an Azerbaijani offensive re-ignited a decades-old conflict between Arme...

‘The Terrible Lioness’

Sep 25, 2020 - 21:27

The Sikh queen Jind Kaur inherited an empire shaken by unexpected deaths and embroiled in civil war, but...

Terror on Wall Street

Aug 28, 2020 - 20:45

A terrorist attack on Wall Street on 16 September 1920 aroused suspicion of anarchists, socialists and fo...

The Rise of the Valkyries

Jul 31, 2020 - 9:11

Life and death in a Viking battle depended not on military prowess, but on the favour of the valkyries. W...