The Tudor Chest - The Podcast
1) The Forgotten Tudor Royal, Lady Margaret Douglas with Beverley Adams
One of the most fascinating but perpetually overlooked figures from the world of the Tudors is Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox. As the sole daughter of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland, Margaret...Show More
2) Exile, The Captive Years of Mary, Queen of Scots with Rosemary Goring
Mary, Queen of Scots is one of the most famous women in British history, known best for the dramatic nature of her execution at the hands of her cousin Queen Elizabeth I. What is less well known is t...Show More
3) Margaret of Anjou, The She Wolf of France, with Dr Elizabeth Norton
She is known, thanks to Shakespeare as the “She Wolf” of France, an evil queen who bullied the men around her, personally authorised the execution of the duke of York and laughed as a paper crown was ...Show More
4) The Life of Sir Thomas Wyatt, Poet and Prisoner, with Adam Pennington
Sir Thomas Wyatt was more than a courtier with a gift for words. He was a man whose life unfolded against the turbulent backdrop of Henry VIII’s reign — a world of shifting alliances, dangerous intrig...Show More
5) The Many Misconceptions of Queen Mary I with Dr Peter Stiffell
Queen Mary I is England’s first true queen regnant, and yet her reign is invariably considered a mere blip in the wider Tudor story, a short lived window in which an intolerant zealot went around burn...Show More
6) Accounting for Anne with James Taffe
Given the brevity of her time as queen of England, we often overlook the fact that Anne of Cleves was indeed that, a queen, and thus her tenure came with all of the benefits, mores and facets of queen...Show More
7) Bloody Brilliant Tudors with Elizabeth Goff
The Tudors are perhaps our most famous royal dynasty, everyone knows that Henry VIII had six wives and that he had two of them made a head shorter, we all know Lizzie the first loved fashion and spent...Show More
8) The Falcon’s Last Flight with Craig Lightoller
In this, the first episode of the year I am pleased to be welcoming Craig Lightoller onto the podcast for the first time. Craig is a historical re-enactor and a playwright. He is here today to speak a...Show More
9) Christmas in Tudor England with Brigitte Webster
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and so it was for the Tudors as well. Yes, its Christmas, and so I thought it would be the ideal opportunity to examine how the Tudors spent the most festive ...Show More
10) The Judicial Murder of Anne Boleyn with Heather Darsie
Most of us can agree that Anne Boleyn was perhaps the most controversial woman to ever sit on the throne of England, but, her life has rarely been examined through a legal lens, until now. Today, hist...Show More