Not Just the Tudors
By History Hit
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 definitely also the Tudors.
Each episode Suzannah is joined by historians and experts to reveal incredible stories about one of the most fascinating periods in history.
Latest episode
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Diary of a Tudor Gentlewoman
Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb meets author Francesca Kay, whose new novel The Book of Days imagines the story of a gentlewoman living in the 1540s. -
Trial of Charles I
Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb speaks to Prof. Edward Vallance, who has deeply researched King Charles I's trial. -
How to Live Like a Stuart Aristocrat
How did religious devotion and piety coexist with a lifestyle dominated by excess? -
Jane Seymour: Henry VIII’s Third Queen
Of Henry VIII’s six wives, Jane Seymour is the one about whom we know perhaps the least. New research is revealing a lot more. -
Adventures of a Mughal Princess
The story behind a largely forgotten manuscript and the life of the charismatic, adventurous princess who wrote it. -
Origins of Fairy Tales
Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb goes back to the 16th and 17th centuries and to the first time that fairy tales were written down and compiled. -
Science vs. Witchcraft: The Kepler Trial
When Johannes Kepler's widowed mother was accused of witchcraft, the astronomer remarkably defended her, in a trial that lasted six years. -
Ghosts & Guardian Angels
So how did our early modern forebears reckon with ghosts and their heavily counterpart, angels? -
The Rise and Fall of Britain's Islands
How did Britain's islands become woven into our collective cultural psyche? Traversing Irish poetry, Renaissance drama and Restoration utopias, author Alice Albinia’s research has boldly upturned established truths about Britain, paying homa… -
Origins of the Condom
Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb meets Dr. Kate Stevenson, whose work as a dress historian has taken her on a journey of discovery into the origins of the condom.