The Tudors Were Obsessed With Troy (But Never Actually Read Homer)
I just watched Nolan's Odyssey and went down a rabbit hole: did the Tudors even know this story? Turns out, not the way you'd think. For mos...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & Podcasts
Society & Culture
Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors
Music, culture, the arts, maritime exploration - Renaissance England was an exciting place to be. So much happening! Breaks with Rome. Wars with France. And Scotland. And Spain! Twice a mont...
Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors Podcast Guide
Listen to Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors, a Society & Culture podcast by Heather Teysko. Stream 634 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
Show Topic
Browse this show under Society & Culture podcasts.
Episodes
20 episodes are loaded now from a catalog of 634. More episodes can be opened from this page.
Discover More
Explore Society & Culture podcasts, United States podcasts and English podcasts.
Episodes
20 of 634 episodes
Two London Historians Show Me the Tudor City Everyone Walks Right Past
I got on a Zoom call with two Blue Badge guides from Context Travel, and by the end of it I had a list of about a dozen places in London I'v...
I Stayed in a 600-Year-Old Inn Full of Secret Smuggling Tunnels
So I recently went to England to sleep in historic places. This is the first episode of a mini series I'm calling Heather Stays in Olde Inns...
The Almost-Marriage That Could Have Erased Lady Jane Grey
In 1513, Charles Brandon knelt in front of Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands, and lifted the ring right off her finger. Twice....
Tracy Borman Makes Me Rethink EVERYTHING About the Boleyns
This conversation totally rearranged some things in my brain. I sat down with Tracy Borman, Chief Historian at Historic Royal Palaces, to ta...
The Mistress Who Almost Made Henry VIII's Bastard Son His Heir
Okay so today's episode is a blast from the past, but stick with me because it's a good one. Back in 2016 I had James Bolton from the Queens...
The Secret That Changes Everything We Thought About "Bloody Mary"
I'm in the UK this week, so I dug into the archive and found this gem from way back when approximately six people were watching my channel....
How Do We Actually Know What Anne Boleyn Looked Like? Art Historian Roland Hui Breaks It Down (Tudor Summit Throwback)
This is a throwback from the very first Tudor Summit back in 2017, the little online conference that eventually grew into TudorCon. I'm digg...
How the Tudors Decided Who Deserved to Eat
In 1547, Parliament passed a law saying that if you refused to work, even for nothing but food, you could be branded and handed over as a sl...
What If Elizabeth I Had Married Robert Dudley? (The Decision That Nearly Broke Her)
A woman is found at the bottom of a staircase in 1560. And the one person who benefits most from it is the Queen of England. This week I'm d...
The Priest Hunter's Nightmare: Nicholas Owen and the Hiding Places No One Could Find
There is a Catholic saint whose actual job, canonized and everything, is patron of magic tricks. Escapologists. Illusionists. And he earned...
The Women Who Hid Priests in Their Walls
FREE ILLUMINATION WORKSHOP Royal Letters: How to Paint a Tudor Rose Initial, with illuminator Julia Bangert. Tuesday. Free, total beginners...
The Priest Who Escaped the Tower of London
In 1588, a tall, well-dressed gentleman rode through Norfolk talking about hawks with anyone who'd listen. He had a gilt-handled rapier, exc...
Henry VIII Got Six Tries. Could His Wives Get One?
Sign up for the weekly newsletter here: https://englandcast.com/newsletter-sign-up Everyone knows Henry VIII's divorce saga. He wanted out,...
Edward VI vs. The Dragon: A Protestant Boy King Who Tried to Rewrite England's Most Elite Knighthood
In 1552, England's teenage Protestant king decided that St. George, patron saint of England, had to go. Not from one town, or one church. Fr...
Constable of the Tower, Then Its Prisoner: The Wild Life of Eleanor de Clare
Want to test the new Tudor Scrolls app? Email me at heather@englandcast.com. She was the granddaughter of a king, married off at thirteen to...
The Forgotten Welfare State: How the Dissolution of Monasteries Devastated the Poor and Sick
Before Henry VIII, if you were sick, old, or starving in England, there was a place you could go. Monasteries ran almshouses, hospitals, fre...
What If Mary Queen of Scots Was Never Executed?
Mary, Queen of Scots was executed on February 8th, 1587, on the strength of a decoded letter and a forged postscript that Elizabeth's spymas...
The Invention of You: How the Renaissance Discovered the Self
📬 Free newsletter (Tudor news, vocab, treasures, behind the scenes): https://englandcast.com/newsletter-sign-up We talk about the Renaiss...
Before Samuel Pepys, There Was This Devon Farmer Buying Velvet Shoes
A Devon farmer records buying velvet shoes and 30 gold buttons. A London astrologer hides his affairs in Latin. Shakespeare puts a soliloquy...