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Not Just the Tudors

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Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks about everything from the Aztecs to witches, Velázquez to Shakespeare, Mughal India to the Mayflower. Not, in other words, just the Tudors, but most definit...

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Listen to Not Just the Tudors, a Society & Culture podcast by History Hit. Stream 538 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Pocahontas & the Virginian Venture

How did the Stuarts turn fragile American outposts into an empire? How did English settlers, Native peoples - including Pocahontas - and Lon...

57:58Jun 22, 2026

How Guns Changed the World

How did the gun become a fashion item in Renaissance Italy? Why do debates over firearms, self-defence and public safety sound so familiar t...

47:06Jun 18, 2026

Elizabethans in America

How did two Indigenous men help shape Elizabethan England's dreams of empire? What do these early encounters tell us about the contested beg...

59:07Jun 15, 2026

Great Plague of London

What effect did the Great Plague have on Londoners, their society and the wider state? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Rebecca Rideal revisi...

54:56Jun 11, 2026

Anne Boleyn: Ambition or Faith?

Was Anne Boleyn a seductress, a schemer, or something far more radical? What happens when we look at Anne not through the lens of sex and sc...

46:55Jun 8, 2026

Rise & Fall of James IV of Scotland

How did a teenage rebel become Scotland’s king, and rule a realm riven by feuds and shifting loyalties? James IV balanced chivalry, diplomac...

56:38Jun 4, 2026

True Crime: Medici Murder at the Louvre

**Warning: Contains graphic description of the mutilation of corpses** In April 1617, Concino Concini, Marshal of France, was shot dead as h...

51:34Jun 1, 2026

The Tudors Abroad

What did it mean to be English when merchants, sailors, captives, diplomats, and migrants were constantly crossing borders? Pirates, a Kenti...

56:23May 28, 2026

Louis XIV: Sun King and Propagandist

How did Louis XIV use his day-to-day life, especially his marriage, to help create the mythology of the Sun King as semi-divine, radiant and...

47:22May 14, 2026

Hoaxes and Lies in the Enlightenment

How did a ghost story bring London to a standstill? Was it a haunting, a fraud, or something even more revealing about Georgian society? Why...

56:23May 7, 2026

Anne of Cleves: New Discoveries

What if Henry VIII’s “discarded bride” actually showed real promise as queen? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Dr James Taffe to dis...

46:16Apr 30, 2026

Anne Boleyn at Hever Castle

What was Anne Boleyn like before she became the most controversial queen in English history? Can the rooms and gardens at her childhood home...

53:45Apr 23, 2026

Maria Theresa, Habsburg Empress

How did a woman rise to power, and keep it, in the fiercely male-dominated Habsburg Empire? From her distrust of the Enlightenment to her re...

50:07Apr 20, 2026

Elizabethans in India

How did England’s earliest travellers to India try to win favour in a Mughal golden age that scarcely noticed them? Professor Suzannah Lipsc...

55:13Apr 16, 2026