What the Tudors Did When They Couldn't Control Anything

Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors by Heather Teysko

Sep 18, 202627:13Society & Culture

Every year in Tudor England, the weather warmed up and people wondered if this would be a plague year. On top of plague there was the sweating sickness, which could kill you between dinner and supper, plus a flu pandemic...

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