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Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

Renaissance England was a bustling and exciting place...new religion! break with rome! wars with Scotland! And France! And Spain! The birth of the modern world! In this weekly podcast I"ll explore one aspect of life in 16th century England that will give you a deeper understanding of this most exciting time.

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21:09

What If Anne of Cleves Had Refused the Annulment?

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2026/03/20

Anne of Cleves is always called the lucky one. She survived Henry VIII, kept her head, and walked away with Hever Castle and a generous income. But in July 1540 she actually had legal grounds to contest the annulment, a brother with diplomatic leverage, and Katherine of Aragon's playbook sitting right in front of her. So why did she say yes? And was it luck, or was it strategy?This week I'm looking at the decision Anne faced, what refusing might actually have cost her, and the moment after

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21:33

The Women Henry VIII Forgot: England's Nuns After the...

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2026/03/18

When Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries, roughly 2,000 nuns lost everything overnight. Their homes, their communities, their vocations, and in many cases the only life they had ever known. We talk endlessly about the monks and the land transfers. We almost never talk about the nuns.In this episode I'm looking at what actually happened to them after the dissolution. Some went home to families. Some married. Some kept living together informally, maintaining their communities without officially

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20:36

The Medieval Women Who Refused to Be Nuns or Wives...

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2026/03/17

The last Beguine died in 2013. Her name was Marcella Pattyn, she was 92 years old, and she was the final link in an 800-year chain of women who refused to be nuns or wives and built something entirely their own instead. The Beguines lived in community, supported themselves, and wrote theology in languages ordinary people could actually read, all without answering to any bishop, abbot, or husband. The medieval Church had no category for them, and that uncertainty turned dangerous fast. This episode

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24:25

Who Actually Paid for the Gloriana Myth? (The Hidden...

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2026/03/17

Everyone knows the image: the pearls, the sieve, the impossible gown. Elizabeth I as Gloriana, timeless and untouchable. But someone paid for that image. A lot of someones. Today we're following the money behind Tudor image-making, from the Norwich aldermen who spent months of public funds on five days of royal pageantry, to Robert Dudley bankrupting himself at Kenilworth, to Nicholas Hilliard painting the most iconic portraits of the age while struggling to pay his own debts. The Gloriana myth

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21:58

Tudor Women Had No Financial Rights. So Why Are Their...

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2026/03/12

Under Tudor law, a married woman didn't legally exist as a financial person. Everything she owned became her husband's the moment she married. She couldn't sign a contract, collect a debt, or run a business in her own name.And yet the account books survive. And they are full of women. Today we're looking at how Tudor women actually managed money in a world that officially pretended they weren't — from Bess of Hardwick knowing to the penny what her glazier charged her, to the mercer's wife who

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14:02

Katherine Parr Was Held Hostage Before She Ever Met...

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2026/03/11

Before Katherine Parr became Henry VIII's sixth wife, she spent eight years at Snape Castle in North Yorkshire as Lady Latimer. In January 1537, armed rebels from the Pilgrimage of Grace showed up while her husband was away, took her and her stepchildren hostage, and ransacked the place. I think that moment explains everything about who Katherine became. Play the game here: https://www.englandcast.com/choose-your-path-snape-castle/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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30:21

What If Mary Tudor's Baby Was Real? | Tudor Alternate...

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2026/03/10

What if Mary I's phantom pregnancy in 1555 had been real? In this episode, I trace what happens to Elizabeth, the Church of England, the Spanish Armada, Mary Queen of Scots, and even English-speaking America if one baby had actually arrived. Spoiler: almost nothing about the modern world looks the same.Related "What if" - what if Elizabeth had married early? https://youtu.be/Al8K_oLHEIY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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25:49

How Tudor People Actually Got Their News (It Was...

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2026/03/09

Related episode on Isabella Whitney: https://youtu.be/JoSeTYE22SE Before newspapers, before coffeehouses, Tudor England had its own chaotic information ecosystem, and it reached further down the social ladder than most people realize. In this episode we're looking at who could actually read, what ordinary people were reading (broadside ballads, almanacs, monster news), and how the Crown kept losing the information war no matter how hard it tried. Turns out the Tudor relationship with fake news,

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15:41

Why Smart Tudor Women Chose the Convent (And What...

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2026/03/06

When Bridget of York, youngest daughter of Edward IV, chose a life at Dartford Priory over marriage to a Scottish prince, most people assume she had no better options. They're wrong.The Tudor convent wasn't a consolation prize. It was the only institution in England that offered women real governance experience, education, community, and a life that didn't depend on surviving childbirth or a husband's political fortunes. Abbesses ran estates and managed finances.Nuns elected their own leaders

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15:42

So You Want to Survive Henry VIII's Court (Good Luck)

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2026/03/04

The Tudor court was one of the most glamorous, exciting, and genuinely terrifying places in the world. And the people who lost their heads there were not stupid. Thomas More was a legal genius. Cromwell basically invented modern bureaucracy. Wolsey ran England for fifteen years. So what went wrong?Today we're building the actual survival guide. The real unwritten rules that separated the people who died in their beds from the people who died on Tower Hill. Spoiler: it is more complicated than

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15:21

The Queen Henry V Called a Witch (And Why He Was Lying)

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2026/03/03

In 1419, Joan of Navarre, dowager queen of England and stepmother to Henry V, was arrested for witchcraft and necromancy. There was no trial. Her income was seized immediately. And Henry V, the king she supposedly tried to murder with wax figures and dark magic, freed her on his deathbed and wrote that he feared for his soul because of what he had done to her. So what actually happened? Joan's story takes us from the court of her father Charles the Bad, through two marriages and a regency, to one

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18:17

What If Reginald Pole Had Just Shut Up? (Margaret...

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2026/03/02

Margaret Pole was 67 years old when Henry VIII had her executed. She wasn't plotting. She wasn't scheming. She was an old woman in the Tower whose son kept writing angry letters from Rome calling Henry a heretic. So today we're playing a game. What if Reginald Pole had kept his opinions to himself? Could Margaret have survived to see Mary on the throne? I think the answer is yes, and the story of why is one of the most infuriating what-ifs in all of Tudor history. We're talking about a man who had

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19:26

A Galley Slave, A Massacre, and Henry VIII Being...

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2026/02/28

We think of the Tudor period as velvet and poetry and dramatic executions. We do not think of it as siege warfare. That's a mistake.In this episode I'm looking at three Tudor sieges that completely wrecked my assumptions about this era: - Henry VIII personally showing up to besiege a French city (and having to be hoisted onto his horse to get there), - a Protestant reformer who ended up as a galley slave after one of the most dramatic castle standoffs in Scottish history, - and a massacre on

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20:28

What If Katherine Howard Had Culpepper's Baby?

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2026/02/27

Katherine Howard is remembered as the tragic teenager who lost her head at seventeen. But what if she didn't have to? In the winter of 1541, everyone at the English court thought Henry VIII was dying. They were just waiting him out. All Katherine had to do was survive a few more months. And then Cranmer slipped that letter under Henry's door, and everything fell apart. But what if two things had gone differently? What if Katherine had gotten pregnant during her secret meetings with Thomas

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22:55

He Betrayed His Brother to Save Himself. Then He Had...

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2026/02/25

In 1538, a man named Geoffrey Pole was arrested and taken to the Tower of London. He hadn't plotted against Henry VIII. He hadn't raised an army. He'd written letters to his brother and said, once, that he wished he could see him.That was enough. What followed was one of the most psychologically devastating interrogations of the Tudor period, and one of the least talked about. Over seven sessions, Geoffrey gave evidence that brought down his entire family: his brother Lord Montagu, his cousin

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18:46

The York Sisters: Five Women, One Dynasty Collapse

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2026/02/23

Everyone knows the Princes in the Tower, but what happened to their sisters? After Bosworth, five daughters of Edward IV faced a new Tudor king who needed one of them and feared the rest. This is the story of how Henry VII solved the problem of Elizabeth, Cecily, Anne, Catherine, and Bridget of York... and what each solution cost.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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41:30

Why Americans Fall in Love with Britain with Jonathan...

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2026/02/20

Follow Anglotopia in all the places Anglotopia website: anglotopia.net Anglotopia store: store.anglotopia.net Anglotopia app: available on iOS App Store and Google Play Store Quentin Lake's coastal walk: https://theperimeter.uk/ ----- What makes someone dedicate their life to a country that isn't their own? Jonathan Thomas, founder of Anglotopia, has spent 19 years building a community for Americans obsessed with British history, culture, and travel. We talk about how he started the site in a

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29:23

The Tudors Didn't Know How It Would End Either

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2026/02/19

We talk a lot about living through uncertain times, especially now. New technology nobody fully understands. Institutions that keep changing the rules. A world that feels like it's shifting faster than anyone can keep up with.The Tudors would have recognized that feeling immediately.Between 1485 and 1603, England went through changes that were, by any measure, total: the printing press, the Reformation, the dissolution of the monasteries, the literal discovery of unknown continents. And unlike us,

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20:13

What’s in a Tudor Woman’s Bag? Court Essentials vs....

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2026/02/19

If you emptied the pockets of a Tudor woman in 1535, what would spill out?In this episode, we’re opening the drawstring purses, apron folds, and girdles of 16th-century women to see what they actually carried. Not the romanticized version. The practical one. From gold pomanders packed with ambergris and spices… To iron keys tied on fraying string… To bread wrapped in linen because there was no such thing as “grabbing something later.” We’ll look at: • The scented luxury of court life • The

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25:34

The Times Mary Tudor Almost Fled England

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2026/02/17

There were moments in Mary Tudor’s life when escape seemed like the safest choice. Imperial ambassadors discussed secret routes to the coast. Ships waited across the Channel. Loyal advisers urged her to leave England before her enemies could move against her.In this video, we look at the most dangerous periods of Mary’s early life, first under her father Henry VIII, when Anne Boleyn’s rise left her isolated, illegitimate, and under constant pressure, and then again under her brother Edward VI,

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