Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors
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I Stayed in a 700-Year-Old Coaching Inn Where Dickens (Maybe) Wrote Pickwick
October 6, 2026 · 12 minThis summer I travelled around the south of England staying in historic inns, and stop number three was the White Horse in Dorking, Surrey. There's been a building on this spot since at least 1278, when it belonged to the Knights…
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Henry VIII's Playbook for Taking Over the Church
October 5, 2026 · 30 minHenry VIII didn't dismantle the Church in England. He took it over, one step at a time, and the plan looks an awful lot like a hostile corporate takeover. Squeeze the leadership, take the board, cut off Rome, audit everything, find some…
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Melancholy, Mutton Candles and Banned Bells: How the Tudors Faced the Dark
October 1, 2026 · 19 minBy All Saints' Day in Tudor London, the sun was down by quarter past four. In the final episode of our autumn series, we find out how the Tudors got ready for the long dark, in their bodies, in their homes, and in their hearts. We start…
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From Farm Servant to Queen: How Every Tudor Got Ready for Autumn
September 30, 2026 · 15 minEvery September, all of Tudor England was on the move. In episode 3 of our autumn series, we climb the social ladder one rung at a time, from a seventeen-year-old farm servant looking for next year's job all the way up to Queen Elizabeth…
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Thomas Tusser's Tudor To-Do List for Autumn (Written Entirely in Rhyme)
September 29, 2026 · 20 minThe harvest is in. Now what? In episode 2 of our autumn series, we head out into the Tudor village with the best guide I could possibly have found: Thomas Tusser, a former choirboy and court musician who walked away from court, became a…
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Why Tudor Tenants Brought Their Landlord a Goose (Michaelmas Explained)
September 28, 2026 · 18 minSeptember 29th was one of the biggest days of the Tudor year, and most of us have never heard of it. Michaelmas, the feast of St Michael and All Angels, was when rent came due, farm servants' contracts ran out, London chose its Lord Mayor…
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The Peasants' Revolt Was Crushed. So Why Did England Never Tax Like That Again?
September 25, 2026 · 23 minThe rebellion is over in three weeks. Wat Tyler is dead, the charters are revoked, John Ball is executed, and by every measure that historians usually use, the Peasants' Revolt failed completely. Except that the tax that started it was…
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The Day the Rebels Walked Into the Tower of London | Peasants' Revolt Part 3
September 23, 2026 · 20 minIn two weeks in June 1381, English peasants drove a Chief Justice out of Essex, took Rochester Castle, walked into Canterbury Cathedral, camped outside London, burned the richest palace in the country, and then walked into the Tower of…