Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors
by Heather Teysko
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The Forgotten Welfare State: How the Dissolution of Monasteries Devastated the Poor and Sick
Jul 2, 2026
20m 06s
What If Mary Queen of Scots Was Never Executed?
Jul 2, 2026
20m 18s
The Invention of You: How the Renaissance Discovered the Self
Jun 30, 2026
21m 59s
Before Samuel Pepys, There Was This Devon Farmer Buying Velvet Shoes
Jun 29, 2026
15m 03s
Body for Body: The People Who Ran the Tower of London
Jun 23, 2026
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| 7/2/26 | The Forgotten Welfare State: How the Dissolution of Monasteries Devastated the Poor and Sick | Before Henry VIII, if you were sick, old, or starving in England, there was a place you could go. Monasteries ran almshouses, hospitals, free lodging for travelers, even schools for poor kids, all as a normal, unglamorous part of just existing. Then in about a decade, almost all of it was gone. In this episode I dig into the side of the Dissolution of the Monasteries that usually gets skipped over in favor of Henry and Anne Boleyn and the break with Rome, what actually happened to the people who relied on that system, how long it took England to build anything to replace it (spoiler: over sixty years), and why the gap in between is a story worth sitting with. Newsletter sign up link: https://www.englandcast.com/newsletter-sign-up/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 20m 06s | ||||||
| 7/2/26 |  What If Mary Queen of Scots Was Never Executed? | Mary, Queen of Scots was executed on February 8th, 1587, on the strength of a decoded letter and a forged postscript that Elizabeth's spymaster slipped into her own secret code. But what if that letter never got decoded at all? In this episode I pull that one thread and follow it all the way out. No execution means no closure for Elizabeth, a murkier justification for the Spanish Armada, and a genuinely messier road to the Union of the Crowns in 1603, the moment that eventually gives us the United Kingdom as we know it. One coded letter in a beer barrel, and everything after it tips sideways.This is part of my ongoing What If series, where I take real Tudor history and nudge it just slightly off its actual path to see what breaks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 20m 18s | ||||||
| 6/30/26 |  The Invention of You: How the Renaissance Discovered the Self | 📬 Free newsletter (Tudor news, vocab, treasures, behind the scenes): https://englandcast.com/newsletter-sign-up We talk about the Renaissance as the time people rediscovered the ancient world. But they were also discovering themselves, for the first time. For most of human history, nobody really knew what they looked like. Then a mirror, a chimney, a printing press, and a blank book arrived within about 150 years of each other, and together they invented something brand new: the interior life. The private self. In this episode: Venetian glass mirrors that once cost as much as a naval ship, the rise of private heated rooms, the explosion of diary keeping, and why Hamlet might be the most "online" character in literary history. 🔔 Subscribe for more Tudor and medieval history Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 21m 59s | ||||||
| 6/29/26 |  Before Samuel Pepys, There Was This Devon Farmer Buying Velvet Shoes | A Devon farmer records buying velvet shoes and 30 gold buttons. A London astrologer hides his affairs in Latin. Shakespeare puts a soliloquy on stage and an audience recognizes something true about themselves. Something was happening in late Tudor England, and it changed how human beings understood their inner lives forever. In this video we trace the invention of the personal diary, from medieval spiritual confession to the first people who just wrote things down because their life felt worth recording. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 15m 03s | ||||||
| 6/23/26 |  Body for Body: The People Who Ran the Tower of London | Did you know the very first person ever imprisoned in the Tower of London also became the first person to escape from it? He got his guards drunk, abseiled out of a window on a rope smuggled in via a wine barrel, realized the rope was twenty feet too short, dropped anyway, and sailed to Normandy with his elderly mother. And the Constable responsible for him lost the job's hereditary rights immediately. This is the story of the people who ran the Tower of London for nearly a thousand years, from that first catastrophic escape all the way to the Duke of Wellington draining the moat and fuming about tourists. It is a wild ride. Tower Menagerie episode: https://youtu.be/cG1E0LkhzkgNewsletter signup: https://www.englandcast.com/newsletter-sign-up/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 18m 21s | ||||||
| 6/22/26 |  The Emperor Who Dropped Mary Tudor For a Better Dowry (And Changed History Forever) | In 1525, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V broke off his engagement to the young Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, and married his cousin Isabella of Portugal instead. The reason? Isabella came with a dowry of 900,000 ducats, and Charles needed the money more than he needed the alliance. That one financial decision may have changed everything. In this alternate history, we ask: what if Charles had waited and married Mary? What happens to the English Reformation? To Catherine of Aragon? To Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, and the Spanish Armada? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 21m 14s | ||||||
| 6/19/26 |  The Black Tudors History Forgot | **Note - I gave Cattalena's death date wrong - it's 1625 and I said 1525! So sorry!!! *** When I picture Tudor England, I used to picture... white people. Portraits. Ruffs. Henry VIII being grumpy. And then I read Miranda Kaufmann's book Black Tudors. Because it turns out there were around 200 free Africans living in England during the Tudor period (probably more, but that's what we know for sure). Working, raising families, going to church, getting buried with full rites. And we almost completely forgot about them. In this episode we're looking at the stories of John Blanke, Jacques Francis, Reasonable Blackman, and Cattelena of Almondsbury. And then I want to talk about something that I've been thinking about: scientific racism, the Enlightenment, Darwin, eugenics, and the strange human pattern of taking progress and using it to build a hierarchy. Miranda Kaufmann's Black Tudors: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Tudors-Miranda-Kaufmann-audiobook/dp/B076ZS1K75/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 23m 29s | ||||||
| 6/17/26 |  What If Tyndale Had Never Translated the Bible? The Man Who Invented English (and Died For It) | What if one man had never existed? William Tyndale was a scholar, a fugitive, and a martyr who died in 1536 strangled at the stake for committing what his government considered a capital crime: translating the Bible into English. But in doing it, he accidentally invented a huge chunk of the English language. "The powers that be." "Let there be light." "The salt of the earth." "Eat, drink, and be merry." All Tyndale. The King James Bible is 90% his words. Shakespeare grew up reading him. And Christopher Hitchens, one of the most famous atheists of the 20th century, called the Tyndale/King James synthesis timeless. This episode covers the history of the Bible in English before Tyndale, what he actually did and why it was so dangerous, the words and phrases he gave us that we still use today, and the What If: what would English, Shakespeare, the Reformation, and our whole cultural inheritance look like if he had never done it? Also, the comparison of the Beatitudes comes directly from the book Medieval Horizons by Ian Mortimer where he spoke about the comparison and showed how well they lined up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 27m 16s | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | Answering the Internet's Most Googled Questions About the Tudors | Did the Tudors steal the throne? Did they brush their teeth? Did they smell? I typed "did the Tudors" into Google and answered every single autocomplete suggestion with actual history. Some answers are surprising, some are horrifying, and at least one involves people deliberately blackening their teeth to look rich. Tudor history is wild and I love it here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 22m 45s | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | Did Tudors Actually Swim? (The Answer Is Weirder Than You Think) | Someone asked me this from their pool. They were floating around listening to the podcast and thought, "did the people I'm obsessed with ever do this?" And it sent me down a rabbit hole, because the answer is so much more complicated and class-loaded than I expected. In this episode we cover: Why Tudors avoided hot baths (and why that was actually logical given what they believed about disease) Who could swim in Tudor England, and it's the opposite of what you'd expect The first swimming manual ever published in England, written by a Cambridge academic who was simultaneously being expelled for blowing a horn around the college grounds The Thames, which was exactly as bad as you're imaginingThe superstition sailors swore by to protect themselves from drowning, and why it made complete sense Tudor history isn't about dirty people who didn't know any better. It's about people with a completely different framework for understanding the world. Water was essential, deadly, and magical to them all at once. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 16m 08s | ||||||
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| 6/10/26 |  Tudor Laundresses: Three Very Different Lives Doing the Dirtiest Job at Court✨ | Tudor historylaundresses+5 | — | Tudor England | Hampton CourtLondon+1 | Tudor laundressesHenry VIII+8 | — | 20m 43s | |
| 6/9/26 |  Medieval Women Couldn't Hold Power? Meet the Two Female Sheriffs Who Ran Entire Counties✨ | medieval womenpower+4 | — | Lacock AbbeyMagna Carta+1 | — | Nicholaa de la HayeEla of Salisbury+7 | — | 14m 10s | |
| 6/8/26 | What If Thomas More Had Just Signed? (My Hair and I Discuss)✨ | Thomas MoreOath of Supremacy+4 | — | Renaissance English History Podcast | — | Thomas MoreOath of Supremacy+8 | — | 17m 04s | |
| 6/3/26 | Spinster: The Job Title That Became an Insult✨ | women's laborTudor England+4 | — | Spinster: The Job Title That Became an Insult | Tudor England | spinsterTudor England+5 | — | 23m 17s | |
| 6/2/26 |  The Tudor Women Who Controlled Access to the Queen (And Paid the Price)✨ | Tudor womenpolitical power+4 | — | Nicola Clark's The Waiting Game | — | Tudorwomen in power+7 | — | 18m 27s | |
| 6/1/26 | The Tudor Legal Loophole That Gave Women Their Lives Back✨ | Tudor historywomen's rights+3 | — | Renaissance English History Podcast | — | Tudor womenlegal loophole+4 | — | 21m 35s | |
| 5/27/26 |  The Tudor Woman Who Ran the Household Pharmacy (And Accidentally Poisoned Everyone)✨ | Tudor Englandhousehold pharmacy+4 | — | — | Tudor England | Tudor womanhousehold pharmacy+5 | — | 22m 03s | |
| 5/26/26 | She Told Two Kings No and Kept Her Castle (And They Had to Wait Until She Died)✨ | medieval historyIsabella de Fortibus+4 | — | Medieval Horizons | — | Isabella de FortibusKing Edward I+5 | — | 19m 46s | |
| 5/25/26 | Patriotism in Tudor England: How a Nation Learned to Love Itself✨ | patriotismTudor England+3 | — | — | England | patriotismTudor+5 | — | 10m 37s | |
| 5/22/26 |  Plague, Prayer and Running Away: How Tudor Londoners Survived the Epidemics✨ | Tudor Londonplague+3 | — | Tudor governmentplague doctors+1 | London | Tudorplague+5 | — | 30m 05s | |
| 5/20/26 |  Did Elizabeth I Actually Order Mary Queen of Scots' Execution? | Someone in the comments asked me to do a deep dive on whether Elizabeth I actually gave the order for Mary Queen of Scots' execution. And the closer I looked, the stranger it got. Here's the surface version. Mary was Elizabeth's prisoner for nineteen years. Elizabeth kept refusing to sign the death warrant. Then one day she signed it. Then said she didn't mean it. Then threw her secretary William Davison in the Tower for sending it. And Mary lost her head anyway. The real version involves a beer barrel, a forged postscript, a council that may or may not have acted behind the queen's back, and a secretary who somehow kept his salary the entire time he was imprisoned for treason. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 26m 08s | ||||||
| 5/19/26 | She Never Said Her Mother's Name. But She Never Took Off the Ring. | Today is May 19th. On this day in 1536, Anne Boleyn was executed on Tower Green. And in a royal nursery somewhere in Hertfordshire, a two-year-old girl had no idea her mother had just been beheaded on her father's orders.That little girl grew up to be Elizabeth I. And she never - not once in more than four decades on the throne - spoke publicly about her mother. We're looking at what happened to Elizabeth in the immediate aftermath of Anne's execution, how she grew up in the strange in-between space of illegitimacy and royal favour, and how Anne's fingerprints are all over Elizabeth's reign - the religion, the image-making, the famous refusal to marry - even though Elizabeth never said her name out loud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 22m 52s | ||||||
| 5/18/26 | What If Edward VI Had Backed Down? The Deathbed Decision That Changed England | Edward VI gets overlooked. He's usually just the boy between Henry and the interesting women. But here's what people miss: Edward didn't just die and leave a mess. He made choices. Theologically driven, politically sophisticated choices. From his deathbed. At fifteen. This week's What If looks at the Devise for Succession, the document Edward drafted in his own hand that bypassed both his sisters and put Lady Jane Grey directly in line for the throne. We look at the pressure campaign he ran on his terrified council, and then ask: what if he'd backed down? Spoiler: the cruel irony is that his plan failed completely and the thing he was trying to protect probably survived because of that failure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 27m 29s | ||||||
| 5/17/26 |  Henry VIII, Constantine, and the Art of the Very Confident Lie | Henry VIII wasn't content to just be King of England. He needed you to know he was descended from Constantine the Great, the Roman emperor who legalized Christianity and changed the course of Western history. And he had receipts. Made-up receipts, courtesy of a 12th century Welsh cleric named Geoffrey of Monmouth, but receipts nonetheless. In this minicast, we look at where this claim came from, why it mattered so much in the 1530s specifically, and why Henry wasn't even close to the only king playing this game. Turns out "I'm descended from a really impressive historical figure" was basically a whole genre of medieval and Tudor political propaganda, and once you see it, you can't unsee it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 7m 18s | ||||||
| 5/13/26 |  1509: The Year Everyone Thought It Was All Beginning | In 1509, England went from a dying paranoid king to a golden coronation to a deadly plague in about eight months. This is a Year in the Life episode, where we slow down and live inside 1509, not just at court but in the guild halls and households of ordinary Londoners who had nowhere to run when the sweating sickness arrived while Henry VIII fled to Windsor. Thomas More wrote some of the most joyful poetry of his life about a king who would later execute him. A Cornish servant woman rode through London on a blue velvet saddle. And a Scottish baby named Arthur was a political provocation in swaddling clothes. This is Henry VIII at seventeen, before everything went wrong. The 2027 Tudor Planner crowdfunder preorder link is here: https://tudorfair.com/products/2027-tudor-planner-crowdfunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 23m 29s | ||||||
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