Tudor Medicine and the Mind: Melancholy, Music, and What Help Actually Looked Like
What happened in Tudor England when someone's mind turned against them? There was no therapist, no diagnosis, no prescription. But there was...
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Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors
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20 of 590 episodesWhat If Lady Jane Grey Had Refused the Crown?
Jane Grey wasn't just a pawn. She was a fierce Protestant intellectual who made a real choice when the crown landed at her feet in 1553. Wha...
The Dairymaid: Tudor England's Most Underestimated Woman
Someone left a comment asking about Tudor dairymaids, and I went down a rabbit hole I did not expect. The dairymaid looks like a background...
How Did Tudors Survive Without Coffee? (The Answer Is Weirder Than You Think)
You've probably heard that Tudor people never drank water, that ale was the default drink for everyone including children, because the water...
The Tudor Uber Driver Who Floated Tudor London
Before bridges, before coaches, before passable roads, if you needed to get anywhere in Tudor London you needed him. The Thames waterman was...
The Most Important Woman in Tudor England You've Never Heard Of
Before hospitals, painkillers, or germ theory, the Tudor midwife was the most powerful person in the room. Licensed by the Bishop, sworn to...
What If Mary Queen of Scots Had Run? A Tudor Thought Experiment
Scotland in the 1560s was chaotic even by Tudor standards. In this thought experiment episode, we ask: what if Mary Queen of Scots had fled...
The Medieval Women Who Ran Businesses, Won Lawsuits, and Refused to Be Pushed Out
History says medieval women were powerless. Some of them knew exactly where the power was and went and got it. In this episode I'm looking a...
Why Tudor England Refused to Eat Tomatoes For 200 Years
The story of how a respected Elizabethan botanist looked at a tomato, applied perfectly logical medical reasoning, and concluded that Englis...
What It Was Actually Like to Work in Henry VIII's Kitchen
Henry VIII's kitchens at Hampton Court occupied 55 rooms, employed 200 men, and burned six tons of wood every single day. This episode spend...
In Tudor England, Your Dreams Were Everyone's Business
In Tudor England, a dream wasn't private. It was medical evidence, potential divine communication, and possibly a message from Satan. This v...
They Hung Babies On Walls: A Day Inside the Tudor Royal Nursery
The Tudor royal nursery wasn't a cozy domestic space. It was a department of state, with its own hierarchy, its own politics, and sworn oath...
She Tested It. They Ignored It. The Women Who Invented Knowledge Before Science Had a Name.
In the late 1400s, two women were doing something radical: generating knowledge and insisting it counted. Margery Kempe was building an evid...
24 Hours in the Life of a Tudor Lady in Waiting (She Asked for Gambling Money. Her Mom Said Practice Your Lute.)
What did a Tudor lady in waiting actually do all day? We're spending 24 hours with Anne Basset at Greenwich Palace in 1538, hour by hour fro...
Did the Tudors DO April Fools?
It's April 1st, and I'm not going to trick you. Instead, let's ask a genuine question: did the Tudors even DO April Fools' Day? The answer i...
Three Queens Who Refused to Behave (And Why History Punished Them For It)
History has a word for queens who had opinions and refused to be managed. Today we're looking at three of them across three centuries - Elea...
Same Choice. Opposite Directions. Two Tudor Women in Exile.
In the 1550s, Tudor England created exiles going both ways. When Mary I came to the throne, Protestants fled. When Elizabeth came to the thr...
How to Survive a Tudor King (A Case Study in Almost Getting It Right)
Thomas Cranmer spent twenty-five years mastering the art of Tudor survival. He was useful, he was careful, he understood exactly how to stay...
What If Katherine Parr Had Refused Thomas Seymour?
Katherine Parr survived Henry VIII -- no small feat -- only to die in childbirth at 36 after rushing into a marriage with Thomas Seymour, th...
Henry VIII Dissolved This Abbey. They Refused to Leave for 500 Years.
Syon Abbey was founded in 1415 and dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539. The community refused to scatter. They waited, came back under Mary, wen...
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