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Not Just the Tudors Episodes

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    How to Survive the Plague

    How did misinformation and scapegoats stoke terror across the nation?

  2. How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England

    How did ordinary people navigate the perils of sickness and try to live for longer?

  3. How to Run a Stuart Household

    Margaret Baker’s Receipt Books: Unearthing 17th Century Domestic Life

  4. How to Kill a Scottish Witch

    Scotland's Witch Trials and the modern-day efforts to recognise these historic injustices

  5. How Poets Spoke Truth to Power

    How have the pens of poets given rise to courage and resistance?

  6. Henry VIII's Reckoning: Pilgrimage of Grace

    How did the challenge to Henry VIII’s religious reforms fail to restore Catholicism?

  7. Henry VIII's Nemesis, Cardinal Pole

    Who was the Cardinal who defied Henry VIII?

  8. Henry VIII's Conscience and Contradictions

    How did Henry VIII's desires change England forever?

  9. Henry VIII's Brothers in Armour

    A fascinating look at the tournament armour of Henry VIII

  10. Henry VIII On Screen: The Historians' Verdict

    Where does fiction meet fact? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb investigates

  11. Henry VIII at War

    Why has history forgotten Henry VIII's legacy as a conqueror?

  12. Henry VIII & his Rabbis

    Henry VIII sought justification for divorce from surprising places.

  13. Henry VII: Reign of Jeopardy

    Was Henry Tudor a controlling tyrant or a visionary who created peace and prosperity?

  14. Hans Holbein: New Discoveries

    Henry VIII’s commanding gaze, Anne of Cleves’ cautious poise are newly examined.

  15. Habsburg Women: Matriarchs of Power

    Time to turn our attention to the Empresses and Queens of the Habsburg Dynasty

  16. Grace O'Malley, Ireland's Pirate Queen

    An in-depth look at one of the most remarkable women of the Elizabethan age

  17. Giordano Bruno: Mystic, Heretic, Spy

    S.J. Parris shares her hero; a defender of free speech who was executed by the Church.

  18. German Peasants War

    500 years ago, a moment of hope, rebellion and bloodshed reshaped the landscape of Europe

  19. From Succession to Codpieces: Your Tudor Questions Answered

    From Victorian inaccuracies to the unique upbringing of Henry VIII's wives, it's all here

  20. Fig Leaves & A Grumpy Jesus: Renaissance to Baroque Art

    Why is the Virgin Mary always dressed in blue? Does egg tempera smell?

  21. Fall of Thomas More

    Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor, closest ally, rumoured torturer and...Saint?

  22. Enchanted Realms: Fairies in the 16th Century

    Tinkerbell; step aside! Early modern fairies were not our friends...

  23. Elizabethans in India

    How English travellers tried to win favour in a faraway place that scarcely noticed them?

  24. Elizabethan Boy Actresses

    An in-depth look at the adolescent boys who played Shakespeare's greatest heroines

  25. Elizabeth I's Doctor, & Poisoner?

    Why was Elizabeth I’s trusted chief physician executed for treason?

  26. Elizabeth I: Succession

    Is the smooth transition from the Tudors to the Stuart dynasty a myth?

  27. Elizabeth Boleyn: The Queen's Mother

    What if the most powerful woman in Anne Boleyn’s story never spoke on the record?

  28. Dr Faustus: Pacts with the Devil

    How one play danced with the devil and it paid off.

  29. Did Oliver Cromwell Ban Christmas?

    How did ordinary people take on Puritan forces to preserve their Yuletide festivities?

  30. Diary of Samuel Pepys

    Unlock the pages of one of the most extraordinary diaries ever written.

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