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The Siege of Loyalty House
The Civil War was the most traumatic conflict in British history, pitting friends and family members against each other, tearing down the old order.Award-winning historian Jessie Childs plunges the reader into the shock of the struggle … -
The Founding of Jamestown
Profit, piety and Pocahontas were all elements of the fascinating story of how the English began to colonize North America. -
A Self-Help Manual for the Melancholy
How was the ailment of melancholy addressed in the "largest, strangest and most unwieldy self-help book ever written"? -
Sex & The Tudors
There’s not an infinite number of ways that humans can act on sexual desire. Human bodies haven’t changed, but the cultural landscape around sex has. What people believed about it, the morality surrounding it, and the paraphernalia concerning it h… -
Walter Raleigh's Quest for El Dorado
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to writer and historian Mathew Lyons about Sir Walter Raleigh, his dream of finding El Dorado, and the epic scale of his failure. -
Suleyman the Magnificent
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to author Christopher de Bellaigue about the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century. -
Discovering Hampton Court
A walk around Hampton Court to take in the sights and tell the story of this marvellous palace. -
Milton's Paradise Lost
The fascinating story of the writing and publishing of perhaps the greatest epic poem in English. -
How Tudor England Treated Outsiders
A look at how the 1554 Egyptian Act criminalised Romani people and others, labelling them all as "Egyptians". -
Death, Desire, Power & Scandal: The House of Dudley
No family was more loved, loathed and loved again by the Tudors than the extraordinary Dudleys.
Not Just the Tudors
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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.
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