Illustrated Tudors: A Conversation with Simon Sandys Winsch

Episode 197: For today’s guest episode I had the pleasure of talking to Simon Sandys Winsch, author of the Illustrated Tudor Dictionary. Given Simon’s broad knowledge of the period I took the opportunity to talk to him about some of the entries in the dictionary that give us a view of what life was like for the Elizabethan’s who went to the London theatres. We started by going back a few years into the reign of Henry 8th and discussed actions of his, the legacy of which the Elizabethans were still living with which led onto conversations about some of the struggles of the ordinary Elizabethan life. Simon Sandys Winsch graduated from Aberystwyth university with a degree in History and international politics and then became a history teacher working in various schools. It was during that career that he realised the importance of knowing topics in depth as well as the need to keep lessons informative and interesting as possible and he now puts those skills to use in writing history books. Link to the Tudor Illustrated Dictionary on Amazon UK: ? Link to the Tudor Illustrated Dictionary on Amazon US: ? Support the podcast at: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Illustrated Tudors: A Conversation with Simon Sandys Winsch is an episode from The History Of European Theatre by Philip Rowe.

This episode is 40:27 long.

This episode was published on Dec 15, 2025.

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