Not Just the Tudors

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Simon Watmough
 Apr 30, 2024
One of if not my favourite podcast from the HistoryHit stable. Professor Susannah Lipscomb is an outstanding interviewer and the guests are always super interesting and informative. I love this podcast!!!

PMH - NJ, USA
 Aug 25, 2023
I love the variety of topics and the high but accessible level of the conversations. I especially love the focus on the female POV in areas of history where our voices have been quiet. one of my faves!


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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.

Each episode Suzannah is joined by historians and experts to reveal incredible stories about one of the most fascinating periods in history.


Episode Date
Witchfinder General
Nov 14, 2024
Invisible Activists of the Reformation
Nov 11, 2024
The Witch
Nov 07, 2024
Fireworks: From the Tudors to Guy Fawkes
Nov 04, 2024
The Brutal Basque Witch Hunt
Oct 31, 2024
Africans in 17th Century England
Oct 28, 2024
The Tudor World at Hampton Court
Oct 24, 2024
The Spanish Armada
Oct 21, 2024
Henry VIII's Brothers in Armour
Oct 17, 2024
Oliver Cromwell: Massacres & Manoeuvres
Oct 14, 2024
Elizabeth I's Conjuror: John Dee
Oct 10, 2024
Floral Messages in the Tudor Court
Oct 07, 2024
The Rise and Fall of Jane Boleyn
Oct 03, 2024
William and Mary's Glorious Revolution
Sep 30, 2024
Mystic Visionary: Teresa of Avila
Sep 26, 2024
Rosy Royals: Tudor & Stuart Gardens
Sep 23, 2024
Oliver Cromwell: Protector & Dictator
Sep 19, 2024
When Britain was a Republic
Sep 16, 2024
Kateryn Parr on Film: Firebrand
Sep 12, 2024
How to Survive the Plague
Sep 09, 2024
Elizabeth I Slept Here: Longleat House
Sep 05, 2024
Omens, Signs and False Prophets
Sep 02, 2024
Catherine de' Medici, Serpent Queen
Aug 29, 2024
The Tragic Travels of Fynes Moryson
Aug 26, 2024
Medici Popes: Power over Piety
Aug 22, 2024
How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Aug 19, 2024
Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent
Aug 15, 2024
China's First Tourists: Travel Writers in the Ming Dynasty
Aug 12, 2024
Rise of the Medici
Aug 08, 2024
Magellan: The First Man to Sail the World
Aug 05, 2024
Henry VII: Rise of the Medieval Tudors
Aug 01, 2024
Vivaldi’s Greatest Protegé
Jul 29, 2024
Charles II's Most Infamous Mistress: Barbara Villiers
Jul 25, 2024
The Mighty Ashanti: Rival to the British Empire
Jul 22, 2024
Spycraft: From the Elizabethans to the Restoration
Jul 18, 2024
The Death of Henry VIII
Jul 15, 2024
The First Japanese Visitor to Elizabethan England
Jul 11, 2024
Charles II's Lost Queen: Catherine de Braganza
Jul 08, 2024
Ultimate Tudor Spy-Master: Robert Cecil
Jul 04, 2024
Six Wives: Kateryn Parr
Jul 01, 2024
Women Pirates of the Caribbean
Jun 26, 2024
Six Wives: Katherine Howard
Jun 24, 2024
Legendary Woman Samurai: Hosokawa Gracia
Jun 20, 2024
Six Wives: Anne of Cleves
Jun 17, 2024
Shakespeare's Players: Burbage and Kempe
Jun 13, 2024
Six Wives: Jane Seymour
Jun 10, 2024
A Tudor Mystery: The Girl Who Could Be Queen
Jun 06, 2024
Six Wives: Anne Boleyn
Jun 03, 2024
The Preacher Too Radical for Luther
May 30, 2024
Female Spies in the 17th Century
May 27, 2024
Six Wives: Katherine of Aragon
May 23, 2024
Henry VIII's Sister, Margaret Queen of Scots
May 20, 2024
Shogun: The Real First English Samurai
May 16, 2024
Shardlake and its Creator C.J. Sansom
May 13, 2024
Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe
May 09, 2024
Walter Raleigh’s Quest for El Dorado
May 06, 2024
From Tudor to Stuart: Regime Change
May 01, 2024
Diving Tudor Shipwrecks
Apr 29, 2024
The Birth of Science in 16th Century Europe
Apr 25, 2024
How Spices Shaped the Modern World
Apr 22, 2024
Elizabeth I: Make-Up & Beauty Tips
Apr 18, 2024
Unusual Births and Disability in 17th Century England
Apr 15, 2024
Seducing James I: Mary & George
Apr 11, 2024
Erasmus: Renaissance Radical
Apr 08, 2024
Wars of Religion: A Woman's Fight for Justice
Apr 04, 2024
Martin Luther
Apr 01, 2024
Surgery in the Early Modern Age
Mar 28, 2024
Jewish History of Venice
Mar 25, 2024
Tudor Ladies-in-Waiting
Mar 21, 2024
Diary of a Tudor Gentlewoman
Mar 18, 2024
Trial of Charles I
Mar 14, 2024
How to Live Like a Stuart Aristocrat
Mar 11, 2024
Jane Seymour: Henry VIII’s Third Queen
Mar 07, 2024
Adventures of a Mughal Princess
Mar 04, 2024
Origins of Fairy Tales
Feb 29, 2024
Science vs. Witchcraft: The Kepler Trial
Feb 26, 2024
Ghosts & Guardian Angels
Feb 22, 2024
The Rise and Fall of Britain's Islands
Feb 19, 2024
Origins of the Condom
Feb 15, 2024
Fairies in the Early Modern Era
Feb 12, 2024
Private Life of King James VI & I
Feb 08, 2024
Supernatural Beings in Early Modern Britain
Feb 05, 2024
Tudor Conquest of Ireland
Feb 01, 2024
How Ecology Shaped History with Peter Frankopan
Jan 29, 2024
Henry VIII's Nemesis, Cardinal Pole
Jan 25, 2024
Murder in the Stuart Court
Jan 22, 2024
Trading British Brides for American Tobacco
Jan 18, 2024
15th Century Puritan Fanatic, Savonarola
Jan 15, 2024
How to Survive in Tudor England
Jan 11, 2024
Elizabeth I's Spymaster, Walsingham
Jan 07, 2024
Princes in the Tower: The Tudor Pretenders?
Jan 04, 2024
Tudors in Love
Jan 01, 2024
The Black Medici Prince of Florence
Dec 28, 2023
Tudor Ghosts and Angels
Dec 21, 2023
How the Elizabethan World Shaped Shakespeare
Dec 18, 2023
Origins of Pantomime
Dec 14, 2023
How the Reformation Changed Music
Dec 11, 2023
The Tudors' Portrait Artist: Holbein
Dec 07, 2023
3 Ways to Die in Early Modern Europe
Dec 04, 2023
Montaigne: Philosopher of the French Renaissance
Nov 30, 2023
Saving Henry VIII's Lost Tapestry
Nov 26, 2023
Mary I: What if She'd Lived?
Nov 22, 2023
Inside Hampton Court Palace
Nov 20, 2023
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I with Tracy Borman
Nov 16, 2023
Henry VIII: What You Really Need to Know
Nov 13, 2023
Witchcraft: Everything You Need to Know
Nov 08, 2023
Henry VII
Nov 06, 2023
Gunpowder Plot: Tudor Origins
Nov 01, 2023
Origins of the Witchfinder General
Oct 30, 2023
Black Tudors
Oct 26, 2023
Inside the Tudor Home
Oct 22, 2023
The Tudors Told Through Numbers
Oct 19, 2023
Shakespeare's son Hamnet with Maggie O'Farrell
Oct 16, 2023
William the Silent, Father of the Netherlands
Oct 12, 2023
Witchcraft: A History in Four Trials
Oct 09, 2023
Normal Women with Philippa Gregory
Oct 05, 2023
How Shakespeare Depicted Race
Oct 02, 2023
Anne Boleyn & Catherine Howard's Uncle, Thomas Howard
Sep 28, 2023
How Kateryn Parr Championed the Reformation
Sep 25, 2023
Eating with the Tudors
Sep 21, 2023
Henry VIII’s Fool, Will Somer
Sep 18, 2023
Margaret Cavendish: 17th Century Revolutionary
Sep 14, 2023
Hapsburg Inbreeding with Dr. Adam Rutherford
Sep 11, 2023
Michelangelo
Sep 07, 2023
Origins of Modern Iran: Safawid Dynasty
Sep 04, 2023
Dutch Golden Age: 'The Goldfinch' and its Painter
Aug 31, 2023
Henry VIII's Billionaire Wardrobe
Aug 28, 2023
Girls on Stage and Page in the Elizabethan Age
Aug 24, 2023
Stealing the Crown Jewels with Al Murray
Aug 21, 2023
Elizabeth I's Censored Annals: A Major Discovery
Aug 17, 2023
Christopher Wren
Aug 14, 2023
Treasures of Lambeth Palace
Aug 10, 2023
Seymour, Dudley & Parr Families: Forgotten Tudor Women
Aug 07, 2023
The African Samurai
Aug 03, 2023
Gentileschi: Greatest Female Artist of the Baroque Age
Jul 31, 2023
Tudor Gifts: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Jul 27, 2023
The Reformation: What Catholics & Protestants Believed
Jul 24, 2023
Ivan the Terrible
Jul 20, 2023
Tudor Queens: The Power of Jewellery
Jul 17, 2023
Elizabethan Rivals: Francis Bacon & Edward Coke
Jul 13, 2023
Francis Drake's Discovery of West Coast America
Jul 10, 2023
Thomas More on Film: The Historians' Verdict
Jul 06, 2023
Elizabeth I's Musician: William Byrd
Jul 03, 2023
Shakespeare's Plays: The Power of Gestures
Jun 29, 2023
Transgender Fairies in Early Modern Literature
Jun 26, 2023
Shakespeare's London: Going to the Theatre
Jun 22, 2023
Elizabeth I’s Royal Tours
Jun 19, 2023
Cromwell, Boleyn & Aragon: A New Discovery
Jun 15, 2023
Shakespeare’s First Folio: Politics, People & Printing
Jun 12, 2023
Elizabethan 'Travel Liar': The Truth about David Ingram
Jun 08, 2023
Mary Queen of Scots, Catherine de' Medici & Elisabeth de Valois
Jun 05, 2023
Shakespeare's First Folio
Jun 01, 2023
Great Fire of London
May 29, 2023
Tudors in Ireland
May 25, 2023
Obscene Jokes in the Early Modern Period
May 22, 2023
Anne Boleyn & Katherine of Aragon: Rival Queens?
May 18, 2023
Enslaved Children in 16th Century Spain
May 15, 2023
Witches of St Osyth
May 11, 2023
Louis XIV and his Mistresses
May 08, 2023
Coronations of Charles I and Charles II
May 04, 2023
Lady Jane Grey
May 01, 2023
England’s First Ambassador to India: Thomas Roe
Apr 27, 2023
Mary Rose: Henry VIII’s Foreign Crew
Apr 24, 2023
Bess's Hardwick Hall
Apr 20, 2023
John Donne: England’s Greatest Love Poet
Apr 17, 2023
Willoughbyland: England's Lost Colony
Apr 13, 2023
Catherine Howard: Henry VIII's Fifth Wife
Apr 10, 2023
Mary, Queen of Scots on Film: Historians’ Verdict
Apr 06, 2023
Creator of Don Quixote: Cervantes
Apr 03, 2023
How People Died in 16th Century London
Mar 30, 2023
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Renaissance Painter
Mar 27, 2023
17th Century Revolutionary England
Mar 23, 2023
Who Painted Anne Dudley? A Tudor Mystery
Mar 20, 2023
Menstruation in Early Modern England
Mar 16, 2023
Anne Boleyn’s Final Year
Mar 13, 2023
The Myth of 'Western Civilisation'
Mar 09, 2023
Katherine of Aragon: England's First Renaissance Queen
Mar 06, 2023
Jews & the Inquisition in Italy
Mar 02, 2023
The Death of Amy Dudley
Feb 27, 2023
The Blood Countess: Elizabeth Bathory
Feb 23, 2023
Mary Queen of Scots’ Lost Letters Decoded
Feb 20, 2023
The House of Guise: Europe's Most Murderous Dynasty?
Feb 16, 2023
Children in Tudor England
Feb 13, 2023
The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
Feb 09, 2023
Henrietta Maria, Charles I’s Queen Consort
Feb 06, 2023
Marguerite de Navarre: Mother of Renaissance France
Feb 02, 2023
When London Shipped Poor Children to America
Jan 30, 2023
Hatton: Elizabeth I's Favourite?
Jan 26, 2023
Batavia: The Worst Shipwreck in History
Jan 23, 2023
Swords in Elizabethan England
Jan 19, 2023
Demonic Possession in 17th-Century Canada
Jan 16, 2023
Nonsuch: Henry VIII's Lost Palace
Jan 12, 2023
How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Jan 09, 2023
Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu
Jan 05, 2023
Birth of the Gregorian calendar
Jan 02, 2023
A Happy Tudor New Year
Dec 29, 2022
The Biggest Discoveries of 2022
Dec 22, 2022
Tudor Christmas Carols
Dec 19, 2022
Filth, Noise & Stench in England
Dec 15, 2022
The First Printed English Bible
Dec 12, 2022
Mary, Queen of Scots: The Material Evidence
Dec 08, 2022
Making Babies in the 17th Century
Dec 05, 2022
Huygens: Europe’s Greatest Scientist
Dec 01, 2022
Public Executions in London
Nov 28, 2022
Fall of the Ming Dynasty
Nov 24, 2022
Football and the Tudors
Nov 21, 2022
Henry VIII’s Lost Brother, Prince Arthur
Nov 17, 2022
Oliver Cromwell’s Republic
Nov 14, 2022
Inca Apocalypse
Nov 10, 2022
Life in Tudor England
Nov 07, 2022
Mary I: Myths Vs. Reality
Nov 03, 2022
Sorcery and the Tudor Court
Oct 31, 2022
Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India
Oct 27, 2022
Edward VI & The Prayer Book Rebellion
Oct 24, 2022
Eustace Chapuys: Ambassador to the Tudor Court
Oct 20, 2022
Female Sodomy
Oct 17, 2022
Women Letter Writers in the Early Modern Period
Oct 13, 2022
Malay’s Dynasty of Reigning Queens
Oct 10, 2022
The Legacy of the Mary Rose
Oct 06, 2022
The Raising of the Mary Rose
Oct 03, 2022
Remembering Hilary Mantel
Sep 29, 2022
The Sinking of the Mary Rose
Sep 26, 2022
Slavery and the Royal African Company
Sep 22, 2022
The Howard Women
Sep 15, 2022
Magellan 500: The First Man to Sail the World
Sep 12, 2022
Elizabethan England's Seafaring Musicians
Sep 08, 2022
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
Sep 05, 2022
Shakespeare’s Henry V
Sep 01, 2022
A 16th Century Celebrity Executioner
Aug 29, 2022
Thomas Cromwell's Private Life
Aug 25, 2022
The Borgias: Sin in Renaissance Italy
Aug 22, 2022
Elizabeth I on Screen: The Historians’ Verdict
Aug 18, 2022
Becoming Elizabeth I
Aug 15, 2022
The Witches of Warboys: England's Most Famous Witch Trial
Aug 11, 2022
Samuel Pepys
Aug 08, 2022
Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army
Aug 04, 2022
The Trial of a Latvian Werewolf
Aug 01, 2022
The Tudors and Food
Jul 28, 2022
The Cultural Impact of Colonisation
Jul 25, 2022
The Venetian Inquisition
Jul 21, 2022
Anne of Cleves
Jul 18, 2022
The Man who Wrote Robinson Crusoe: Daniel Dafoe
Jul 14, 2022
Isaac Newton
Jul 11, 2022
Tudor Poet Anne Askew: Heretic or Martyr?
Jul 07, 2022
Surviving Plague in Florence
Jul 04, 2022
Elizabeth I: Last Days and Legacy
Jun 30, 2022
Was Queenship the Same Around the World?
Jun 27, 2022
How to Crown a Tudor Queen
Jun 23, 2022
Isabel Clara Eugenia: Early Modern Europe's Most Powerful Woman
Jun 20, 2022
Mary II and Anne: Sister Queens
Jun 16, 2022
How to Become Queen in Early Modern Europe
Jun 13, 2022
The Queen Who Was Crowned King
Jun 09, 2022
Tudor England's Foreign Queens
Jun 06, 2022
Queen Consorts in the Renaissance
Jun 02, 2022
Isabella & Ferdinand's Granada
May 30, 2022
The Man Who Broke Michelangelo's Nose
May 26, 2022
Religious Exiles in Early Modern Europe
May 23, 2022
Anne Boleyn: Dispelling the Myths
May 19, 2022
The English Civil War: Loyalty House
May 16, 2022
The Founding of Jamestown
May 12, 2022
How to Treat Depression in 17th Century England
May 09, 2022
Sex & The Tudors
May 05, 2022
Walter Raleigh's Quest for El Dorado
May 02, 2022
Suleyman the Magnificent
Apr 28, 2022
Discovering Hampton Court
Apr 25, 2022
Milton's Paradise Lost: An Epic Poem
Apr 21, 2022
How Tudor England Treated Outsiders
Apr 18, 2022
The House of Dudley
Apr 14, 2022
Francesca Caccini: Composer to the Medicis
Apr 11, 2022
The Tudors in Portraits
Apr 07, 2022
The Taj Mahal & the Emperor Who Built It
Apr 04, 2022
François I, King of France
Mar 31, 2022
Anne Boleyn's Early Life
Mar 28, 2022
The Founding of Cape Town
Mar 24, 2022
The End of Monasteries
Mar 21, 2022
Henry VIII's Courtier, Sir Thomas Wyatt
Mar 17, 2022
The Real Cyrano de Bergerac
Mar 14, 2022
Elizabeth Stuart: The Forgotten Queen
Mar 10, 2022
Elizabeth I's Favourite Painter: Hilliard
Mar 07, 2022
How the Tudors Told Time
Mar 03, 2022
Same-Sex Marriages in Renaissance Rome
Feb 28, 2022
Oliver Cromwell's Wife and Daughters
Feb 24, 2022
Escaping Slavery in London
Feb 21, 2022
Women's Work in 17th Century London
Feb 17, 2022
The Glencoe Massacre
Feb 14, 2022
Kateryn Parr: Henry VIII's Sixth Queen
Feb 10, 2022
Travel in the Ming Dynasty
Feb 07, 2022
Edward VI: The Last Boy King
Feb 03, 2022
Antwerp: Renaissance Europe's Dazzling Sea Port
Jan 31, 2022
Death of Henry VIII
Jan 27, 2022
Henry VIII & Jousting
Jan 24, 2022
Kate Mosse: Writing Historical Fiction
Jan 20, 2022
Cardinal Wolsey
Jan 17, 2022
Elizabeth I & Mary, Queen of Scots
Jan 13, 2022
1492: The Year the Spanish Monarchy Changed the World
Jan 10, 2022
Franz Hals: Painter of The Laughing Cavalier
Jan 06, 2022
2022: A Year of Major Anniversaries
Jan 03, 2022
A Happy Tudor New Year
Dec 30, 2021
Biggest Tudor Discoveries 2021
Dec 27, 2021
Tudor Ghosts and Angels
Dec 23, 2021
Witches of Iceland
Dec 20, 2021
Tudor Box Set Binge
Dec 16, 2021
Dürer: The Great Renaissance Artist
Dec 13, 2021
True Crime on the Elizabethan Stage
Dec 09, 2021
The Murder of Rizzio, Mary Queen of Scots' Favourite
Dec 06, 2021
Black Tudors
Dec 02, 2021
How Powerful was Henry VIII?
Nov 29, 2021
The First Gun Crime in London
Nov 25, 2021
Henry VIII's Wives on Stage: Six - The Musical
Nov 22, 2021
Did Thomas Seymour Groom Elizabeth Tudor?
Nov 18, 2021
Oliver Cromwell
Nov 15, 2021
The Last Witches in England
Nov 11, 2021
England: Devil-Land 1588-1688
Nov 08, 2021
Ottoman Empire in the Renaissance
Nov 04, 2021
Singing the News in Tudor England
Nov 01, 2021
The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
Oct 28, 2021
Witches & Puritans
Oct 25, 2021
Massacre of the Huguenots
Oct 21, 2021
Mary I's Husband: Philip II of Spain
Oct 18, 2021
How Catherine of Aragon Learnt to be Queen
Oct 14, 2021
The 1549 Kett's Rebellion
Oct 11, 2021
17th & 18th Century Sexual Revolution
Oct 07, 2021
Lady Jane Grey
Oct 04, 2021
Sir Thomas More
Sep 30, 2021
The Gunpowder Plot: Tudor Origins
Sep 27, 2021
Holbein and the Tudor Court
Sep 23, 2021
Hans Holbein's Early Years
Sep 20, 2021
Clothing Tudor Queens
Sep 16, 2021
Islam and the Elizabethans
Sep 13, 2021
Making Babies in the 17th Century
Sep 09, 2021
Ottoman Traveller: Fynes Moryson
Sep 06, 2021
Tudors in Love
Sep 02, 2021
Accused of Witchcraft
Aug 30, 2021
Henry VIII's Break with Rome
Aug 26, 2021
The Biblical Apocalypse in Münster
Aug 23, 2021
Beauty Ideals in the 16th Century
Aug 19, 2021
Bloody Mary vs. The Virgin Queen
Aug 16, 2021
Alessandro de' Medici, Black Prince of Florence
Aug 12, 2021
Henry VIII: Defender of the Faith
Aug 09, 2021
The Witches of Lorraine
Aug 05, 2021
Beards
Aug 02, 2021
Sor Juana: Poet, Nun, Martyr
Jul 29, 2021
Catherine Howard
Jul 26, 2021
Martin Luther
Jul 22, 2021
Elizabeth I and Catherine de' Medici
Jul 19, 2021
16th Century Feminists
Jul 15, 2021
Sodomy & Sex Crimes in France
Jul 12, 2021
The Death of Anne Boleyn
Jul 08, 2021
10 Treasures from the National Trust
Jul 05, 2021
Coffee & Tobacco
Jul 01, 2021
Heywood: The Catholic Satirist who Kept his Head
Jun 28, 2021
Hampton Court: Gold & Glory
Jun 24, 2021
Charles V: Holy Roman Emperor
Jun 21, 2021
Louis XIV and his Mistresses
Jun 17, 2021
Mary, Queen of Scots
Jun 14, 2021
Japan's Edo Period
Jun 10, 2021
The French Historie: A Gory Poem
Jun 07, 2021
A 16th Century Public Executioner
Jun 03, 2021
Dissolution of the Monasteries
May 31, 2021
The Renaissance Lute
May 27, 2021
Origins of the English in India
May 24, 2021
Anne Boleyn: New Discoveries
May 20, 2021
Anne Boleyn: Life and Afterlives
May 17, 2021
17th Century Female Spies
May 13, 2021
Tudor Banquets
May 10, 2021
The Aztecs
May 06, 2021
The Queer Shakespeare: John Lyly
May 03, 2021
Bridewell: The Palace that became a Prison
Apr 29, 2021
An Early Modern Teenage Werewolf
Apr 29, 2021
Velazquez and the Spanish Court
Apr 29, 2021
Henry VIII's Billionaire Wardrobe
Apr 29, 2021