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1

James V: Scotland's Ambitious Renaissance King

2

True Crime: Mass Murderering Artist Cellini

3

C.S. Lewis & Narnia: Renaissance Origins

4

The Star Chamber: Murder, Witch & Libel Trials

5

William Cecil: The Power Behind Elizabeth I

6

Witnesses to the French Revolution

7

New Discovery: Who Really Wrote Elizabeth I's Letters?

8

Robespierre & Revolutionary Terror

9

How Protestants Justified Slavery

10

French Revolution: Storming of the Bastille

11

True Crime: Murder & the Popish Plot

12

Who Lit the French Revolution?

13

Bess of Hardwick: Elizabethan England's Richest Woman

14

Edmund Halley & His Comet

15

The Mayflower and its Pilgrims

16

Jamestown: From Colony to Cannibalism

17

True Crime: Moll Cutpurse - London's Cross-Dressing Criminal

18

Pocahontas & the Virginian Venture

19

How Guns Changed the World

20

Elizabethans in America

21

Great Plague of London

22

Anne Boleyn: Ambition or Faith?

23

Rise & Fall of James IV of Scotland

24

True Crime: Medici Murder at the Louvre

25

The Tudors Abroad

26

Royal Favourites: Hatton, Elizabeth I's Favourite

27

Battle of the Eras: Medieval v. Early Modern

28

Royal Favourites: Queen Anne & Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough

29

Louis XIV: Sun King and Propagandist

30

Royal Favourites: James I and George Villiers

31

Hoaxes and Lies in the Enlightenment

32

Royal Favourites: Robert Dudley, Elizabeth I's Forbidden Love

33

Anne of Cleves: New Discoveries

34

Francisco de Cuéllar: Spanish Armada Captain

35

Anne Boleyn at Hever Castle

36

Maria Theresa, Habsburg Empress

37

Elizabethans in India

38

Lady Jane Grey

39

Grace O'Malley, Ireland's Pirate Queen

40

Elizabethan Boy Actresses

41

When the Spanish Armada Reached Ireland

42

Henry Wotton: Outlaw and Royal Spy

43

The Rise and Fall of Pirate Captain Kidd

44

Plantagenet vs. Tudor: Who was the Rightful King?

45

Tudor True Crime: The First Female Serial Killer?

46

Plots against Elizabeth I

47

Colonial Women of the Americas

48

Regime Change: From Stuart to Hanover

49

Henry VII: Reign of Jeopardy

50

Queen Anne: The Last Stuart Monarch

51

When Elves & Fairies Lived Among Us

52

Queen Mary II & the Glorious Revolution

53

Tudor True Crime: Lynching of the "Duke's Devil"

54

James II: The Restoration's Last Catholic King

55

Katherine Howard's Deadly Affairs

56

Charles II: Restoration of the Monarchy

57

Why Cromwell's Republic Failed

58

"Bloody Mary": Debunking the Myths

59

Ireland Under the Brutal Tudors

60

Elizabeth I's Doctor - & Poisoner?

61

Girl With a Pearl Earring: Identity Revealed

62

Henry VIII's Reckoning: Pilgrimage of Grace

63

Hamnet

64

Tudor True Crime: Murder in Renaissance Rome

65

Elizabeth I's Succession Crisis

66

Christopher Marlowe: A Dangerous Life

67

Enchanted Realms: Fairies in the 16th Century

68

The Secrets Hidden In Tudor Art

69

Princes in the Tower

70

Did Oliver Cromwell Ban Christmas?

71

From Succession to Codpieces: Your Tudor Questions Answered

72

Surviving Plague in Venice

73

Elizabeth Boleyn: The Queen's Mother

74

Henry VIII At War

75

How Poets Spoke Truth to Power

76

Dark Side of the Quakers

77

Mother of All Tudors: Margaret Beaufort

78

Origins of Free Speech

79

Raleigh and the Lost Colony of Roanoke

80

Tudor True Crime: Who Murdered Lord Darnley?

81

Hans Holbein: New Discoveries

82

The Rise of St Paul's Cathedral

83

What if Guy Fawkes had succeeded?

84

King vs. Emperor: The Battle of Pavia, 1525

85

Diary of Samuel Pepys

86

Jane Boleyn with Philippa Gregory

87

When Europe met Islam

88

How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England

89

Ballads of Magic & Mystery

90

Voices of Thunder: Radical Women of the 17th Century

91

Henry VIII on Screen: The Historians' Verdict

92

The Last Plantagenets in Tudor England

93

Fig Leaves & A Grumpy Jesus: Renaissance to Baroque Art

94

Rudolf II, the "Mad Habsburg Emperor"

95

Marlowe & Shakespeare: Rivals or Collaborators?

96

Habsburg Women: Matriarchs of Power

97

Vanity of Henry VIII with Kate Lister

98

Charles V, Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor

99

Shakespeare's Male Muse: A Mystery Solved?

100

Rise of the Habsburgs

101

English Civil War Pt.2: Cromwell v. Charles I

102

English Civil War Pt.1

103

Tudor True Crime: Europe's Most Murderous Dynasty

104

Tudor True Crime: Murder in the Stuart Court

105

Tudor True Crime: Murder of Amy Dudley

106

Tudor True Crime: Murder of Christopher Marlowe

107

Othered: Race, Gender & Human 'Monsters'

108

Molière: Satire, Scandal & the Stage

109

Vasari: Inventor of Artistic Genius

110

British Barbary Slaves

111

Isabel and Ferdinand: Renaissance Power Couple

112

The Rise of Isabel of Castile

113

Bonnie Prince Charlie & the Jacobite Rebellion

114

The Restoration Queen: Maria of Modena

115

When Women Ruled the Low Countries

116

Nicholas Culpeper: Herbalist and Radical

117

Mary Rose & the Battle of the Solent

118

The Roma: Resistance & Survival

119

The Duchess of Malfi

120

Prelude to the English Civil War

121

Akbar, the Great Mughal

122

Shakespeare's Family: New Discoveries

123

Jane Austen & the Reformation

124

Accidental Deaths in Tudor England

125

Isabella d’Este: Renaissance Influencer

126

Mystery of the Cheapside Hoard

127

Fall of Thomas More

128

Rise of Thomas More

129

John Dee's Angels

130

Philip II of Spain, King of England

131

Dancing Plague of 1518

132

How to Kill a Scottish Witch

133

Shakespeare's First Playhouse

134

Young Elizabeth I

135

The Maya and the Inquisition

136

The Elizabethans and Islam

137

The Dark Side of Sir Francis Drake

138

Tudors & Their Dogs

139

The Caribbean, Colonisers & Christianity

140

Cardinal Wolsey

141

Cortés and the Aztecs

142

Succession 1625: James I to Charles I

143

Christopher Columbus

144

Henry VIII's Conscience and Contradictions

145

Conquest of the Americas

146

What did Henry VIII Believe?

147

Aphra Behn: Revolutionary, Author, Spy

148

Dr Faustus: Pacts with the Devil

149

Henry VIII & his Rabbis

150

Murderous Women

151

The Birth of New York City

152

Ireland's Witchcraft Trials

153

Robert Dudley: Elizabeth I's Forbidden Love

154

Shakespeare's Daughter, Judith

155

The Great Siege of Malta

156

How to Run a Stuart Household

157

Giordano Bruno: Mystic, Heretic, Spy

158

German Peasants' War

159

Versailles: Science & Splendour

160

Nell Gwyn: Actress and Royal Mistress

161

Rene Descartes

162

When Europeans reached Australia

163

Lucrezia Borgia

164

Little Ice Age

165

Mysterious Murder of Juan Borgia

166

Wolf Hall: Who's Who?

167

Cesare Borgia

168

Dissolution of the Monasteries

169

Rise of the Borgias

170

Machiavelli

171

Six Wives: Katherine Howard & Kateryn Parr

172

Sir Christopher Wren

173

Six Wives: Jane Seymour & Anne of Cleves

174

Six Wives: Katherine of Aragon & Anne Boleyn

175

The Bible

176

Pirates of the Pacific & the Spanish Empire

177

Marie Antoinette

178

Elizabeth I & the Sultan of Morocco

179

William III & the Persecution of Sodomites

180

Majestic Mughals: From Akbar to Shah Jahan

181

The Witches of Lorraine

182

The Women who Painted the Tudors

183

Practical Magic: Spells, Prayers & Cunning Folk

184

Leonardo da Vinci with Ken Burns

185

Witchfinder General

186

Invisible Activists of the Reformation

187

The Witch

188

Fireworks: From the Tudors to Guy Fawkes

189

The Brutal Basque Witch Hunt

190

Africans in 17th Century England

191

The Tudor World at Hampton Court

192

The Spanish Armada

193

Henry VIII's Brothers in Armour

194

Oliver Cromwell: Massacres & Manoeuvres

195

Elizabeth I's Conjuror: John Dee

196

Floral Messages in the Tudor Court

197

The Rise and Fall of Jane Boleyn

198

William and Mary's Glorious Revolution

199

Mystic Visionary: Teresa of Avila

200

Rosy Royals: Tudor & Stuart Gardens

201

Oliver Cromwell: Protector & Dictator

202

When Britain was a Republic

203

Kateryn Parr on Film: Firebrand

204

How to Survive the Plague

205

Elizabeth I Slept Here: Longleat House

206

Omens, Signs and False Prophets

207

Catherine de' Medici, Serpent Queen

208

The Tragic Travels of Fynes Moryson

209

Medici Popes: Power over Piety

210

How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

211

Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent

212

China's First Tourists: Travel Writers in the Ming Dynasty

213

Rise of the Medici

214

Magellan: The First Man to Sail the World

215

Henry VII: Rise of the Medieval Tudors

216

Vivaldi’s Greatest Protegé

217

Charles II's Most Infamous Mistress: Barbara Villiers

218

The Mighty Ashanti: Rival to the British Empire

219

Spycraft: From the Elizabethans to the Restoration

220

The Death of Henry VIII

221

The First Japanese Visitor to Elizabethan England

222

Charles II's Lost Queen: Catherine de Braganza

223

Ultimate Tudor Spy-Master: Robert Cecil

224

Six Wives: Kateryn Parr

225

Women Pirates of the Caribbean

226

Six Wives: Katherine Howard

227

Legendary Woman Samurai: Hosokawa Gracia

228

Six Wives: Anne of Cleves

229

Shakespeare's Players: Burbage and Kempe

230

Six Wives: Jane Seymour

231

A Tudor Mystery: The Girl Who Could Be Queen

232

Six Wives: Anne Boleyn

233

The Preacher Too Radical for Luther

234

Female Spies in the 17th Century

235

Six Wives: Katherine of Aragon

236

Henry VIII's Sister, Margaret Queen of Scots

237

Shogun: The Real First English Samurai

238

Shardlake and its Creator C.J. Sansom

239

Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe

240

Walter Raleigh’s Quest for El Dorado

241

From Tudor to Stuart: Regime Change

242

Diving Tudor Shipwrecks

243

The Birth of Science in 16th Century Europe

244

How Spices Shaped the Modern World

245

Elizabeth I: Make-Up & Beauty Tips

246

Unusual Births and Disability in 17th Century England

247

Seducing James I: Mary & George

248

Erasmus: Renaissance Radical

249

Wars of Religion: A Woman's Fight for Justice

250

Martin Luther

251

Surgery in the Early Modern Age

252

Jewish History of Venice

253

Tudor Ladies-in-Waiting

254

Diary of a Tudor Gentlewoman

255

Trial of Charles I

256

How to Live Like a Stuart Aristocrat

257

Jane Seymour: Henry VIII’s Third Queen

258

Adventures of a Mughal Princess

259

Origins of Fairy Tales

260

Science vs. Witchcraft: The Kepler Trial

261

Ghosts & Guardian Angels

262

The Rise and Fall of Britain's Islands

263

Origins of the Condom

264

Fairies in the Early Modern Era

265

Private Life of King James VI & I

266

Supernatural Beings in Early Modern Britain

267

Tudor Conquest of Ireland

268

How Ecology Shaped History with Peter Frankopan

269

Henry VIII's Nemesis, Cardinal Pole

270

Murder in the Stuart Court

271

Trading British Brides for American Tobacco

272

15th Century Puritan Fanatic, Savonarola

273

How to Survive in Tudor England

274

Elizabeth I's Spymaster, Walsingham

275

Princes in the Tower: The Tudor Pretenders?

276

Tudors in Love

277

The Black Medici Prince of Florence

278

Tudor Ghosts and Angels

279

How the Elizabethan World Shaped Shakespeare

280

Origins of Pantomime

281

How the Reformation Changed Music

282

The Tudors' Portrait Artist: Holbein

283

3 Ways to Die in Early Modern Europe

284

Montaigne: Philosopher of the French Renaissance

285

Saving Henry VIII's Lost Tapestry

286

Mary I: What if She'd Lived?

287

Inside Hampton Court Palace

288

Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I with Tracy Borman

289

Henry VIII: What You Really Need to Know

290

Witchcraft: Everything You Need to Know

291

Henry VII

292

Gunpowder Plot: Tudor Origins

293

Origins of the Witchfinder General

294

Black Tudors

295

Inside the Tudor Home

296

The Tudors Told Through Numbers

297

Shakespeare's son Hamnet with Maggie O'Farrell

298

William the Silent, Father of the Netherlands

299

Witchcraft: A History in Four Trials

300

Normal Women with Philippa Gregory

301

How Shakespeare Depicted Race

302

Anne Boleyn & Catherine Howard's Uncle, Thomas Howard

303

How Kateryn Parr Championed the Reformation

304

Eating with the Tudors

305

Henry VIII’s Fool, Will Somer

306

Margaret Cavendish: 17th Century Revolutionary

307

Hapsburg Inbreeding with Dr. Adam Rutherford

308

Michelangelo

309

Origins of Modern Iran: Safawid Dynasty

310

Dutch Golden Age: 'The Goldfinch' and its Painter

311

Henry VIII's Billionaire Wardrobe

312

Girls on Stage and Page in the Elizabethan Age

313

Stealing the Crown Jewels with Al Murray

314

Elizabeth I's Censored Annals: A Major Discovery

315

Christopher Wren

316

Treasures of Lambeth Palace

317

Seymour, Dudley & Parr Families: Forgotten Tudor Women

318

The African Samurai

319

Gentileschi: Greatest Female Artist of the Baroque Age

320

Tudor Gifts: How to Win Friends and Influence People

321

The Reformation: What Catholics & Protestants Believed

322

Ivan the Terrible

323

Tudor Queens: The Power of Jewellery

324

Elizabethan Rivals: Francis Bacon & Edward Coke

325

Francis Drake's Discovery of West Coast America

326

Thomas More on Film: The Historians' Verdict

327

Elizabeth I's Musician: William Byrd

328

Shakespeare's Plays: The Power of Gestures

329

Transgender Fairies in Early Modern Literature

330

Shakespeare's London: Going to the Theatre

331

Elizabeth I’s Royal Tours

332

Cromwell, Boleyn & Aragon: A New Discovery

333

Shakespeare’s First Folio: Politics, People & Printing

334

Elizabethan 'Travel Liar': The Truth about David Ingram

335

Mary Queen of Scots, Catherine de' Medici & Elisabeth de Valois

336

Shakespeare's First Folio

337

Great Fire of London

338

Tudors in Ireland

339

Obscene Jokes in the Early Modern Period

340

Anne Boleyn & Katherine of Aragon: Rival Queens?

341

Enslaved Children in 16th Century Spain

342

Witches of St Osyth

343

Louis XIV and his Mistresses

344

Coronations of Charles I and Charles II

345

Lady Jane Grey

346

England’s First Ambassador to India: Thomas Roe

347

Mary Rose: Henry VIII’s Foreign Crew

348

Bess's Hardwick Hall

349

John Donne: England’s Greatest Love Poet

350

Willoughbyland: England's Lost Colony

351

Catherine Howard: Henry VIII's Fifth Wife

352

Mary, Queen of Scots on Film: Historians’ Verdict

353

Creator of Don Quixote: Cervantes

354

How People Died in 16th Century London

355

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Renaissance Painter

356

17th Century Revolutionary England

357

Who Painted Anne Dudley? A Tudor Mystery

358

Menstruation in Early Modern England

359

Anne Boleyn’s Final Year

360

The Myth of 'Western Civilisation'

361

Katherine of Aragon: England's First Renaissance Queen

362

Jews & the Inquisition in Italy

363

The Death of Amy Dudley

364

The Blood Countess: Elizabeth Bathory

365

Mary Queen of Scots’ Lost Letters Decoded

366

The House of Guise: Europe's Most Murderous Dynasty?

367

Children in Tudor England

368

The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

369

Henrietta Maria, Charles I’s Queen Consort

370

Marguerite de Navarre: Mother of Renaissance France

371

When London Shipped Poor Children to America

372

Hatton: Elizabeth I's Favourite?

373

Batavia: The Worst Shipwreck in History

374

Swords in Elizabethan England

375

Demonic Possession in 17th-Century Canada

376

Nonsuch: Henry VIII's Lost Palace

377

How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

378

Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu

379

Birth of the Gregorian calendar

380

A Happy Tudor New Year

381

The Biggest Discoveries of 2022

382

Tudor Christmas Carols

383

Filth, Noise & Stench in England

384

The First Printed English Bible

385

Mary, Queen of Scots: The Material Evidence

386

Making Babies in the 17th Century

387

Huygens: Europe’s Greatest Scientist

388

Public Executions in London

389

Fall of the Ming Dynasty

390

Football and the Tudors

391

Henry VIII’s Lost Brother, Prince Arthur

392

Oliver Cromwell’s Republic

393

Inca Apocalypse

394

Life in Tudor England

395

Mary I: Myths Vs. Reality

396

Sorcery and the Tudor Court

397

Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India

398

Edward VI & The Prayer Book Rebellion

399

Eustace Chapuys: Ambassador to the Tudor Court

400

Female Sodomy

401

Women Letter Writers in the Early Modern Period

402

Malay’s Dynasty of Reigning Queens

403

The Legacy of the Mary Rose

404

The Raising of the Mary Rose

405

Remembering Hilary Mantel

406

The Sinking of the Mary Rose

407

Slavery and the Royal African Company

408

The Howard Women

409

Magellan 500: The First Man to Sail the World

410

Elizabethan England's Seafaring Musicians

411

Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing

412

Shakespeare’s Henry V

413

A 16th Century Celebrity Executioner

414

Thomas Cromwell's Private Life

415

The Borgias: Sin in Renaissance Italy

416

Elizabeth I on Screen: The Historians’ Verdict

417

Becoming Elizabeth I

418

The Witches of Warboys: England's Most Famous Witch Trial

419

Samuel Pepys

420

Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army

421

The Trial of a Latvian Werewolf

422

The Tudors and Food

423

The Cultural Impact of Colonisation

424

The Venetian Inquisition

425

Anne of Cleves

426

The Man who Wrote Robinson Crusoe: Daniel Dafoe

427

Isaac Newton

428

Tudor Poet Anne Askew: Heretic or Martyr?

429

Surviving Plague in Florence

430

Elizabeth I: Last Days and Legacy

431

Was Queenship the Same Around the World?

432

How to Crown a Tudor Queen

433

Isabel Clara Eugenia: Early Modern Europe's Most Powerful Woman

434

Mary II and Anne: Sister Queens

435

How to Become Queen in Early Modern Europe

436

The Queen Who Was Crowned King

437

Tudor England's Foreign Queens

438

Queen Consorts in the Renaissance

439

Isabella & Ferdinand's Granada

440

The Man Who Broke Michelangelo's Nose

441

Religious Exiles in Early Modern Europe

442

Anne Boleyn: Dispelling the Myths

443

The English Civil War: Loyalty House

444

The Founding of Jamestown

445

How to Treat Depression in 17th Century England

446

Sex & The Tudors

447

Walter Raleigh's Quest for El Dorado

448

Suleyman the Magnificent

449

Discovering Hampton Court

450

Milton's Paradise Lost: An Epic Poem

451

How Tudor England Treated Outsiders

452

The House of Dudley

453

Francesca Caccini: Composer to the Medicis

454

The Tudors in Portraits

455

The Taj Mahal & the Emperor Who Built It

456

François I, King of France

457

Anne Boleyn's Early Life

458

The Founding of Cape Town

459

The End of Monasteries

460

Henry VIII's Courtier, Sir Thomas Wyatt

461

The Real Cyrano de Bergerac

462

Elizabeth Stuart: The Forgotten Queen

463

Elizabeth I's Favourite Painter: Hilliard

464

How the Tudors Told Time

465

Same-Sex Marriages in Renaissance Rome

466

Oliver Cromwell's Wife and Daughters

467

Escaping Slavery in London

468

Women's Work in 17th Century London

469

The Glencoe Massacre

470

Kateryn Parr: Henry VIII's Sixth Queen

471

Travel in the Ming Dynasty

472

Edward VI: The Last Boy King

473

Antwerp: Renaissance Europe's Dazzling Sea Port

474

Death of Henry VIII

475

Henry VIII & Jousting

476

Kate Mosse: Writing Historical Fiction

477

Cardinal Wolsey

478

Elizabeth I & Mary, Queen of Scots

479

1492: The Year the Spanish Monarchy Changed the World

480

Franz Hals: Painter of The Laughing Cavalier

481

2022: A Year of Major Anniversaries

482

A Happy Tudor New Year

483

Biggest Tudor Discoveries 2021

484

Tudor Ghosts and Angels

485

Witches of Iceland

486

Tudor Box Set Binge

487

Dürer: The Great Renaissance Artist

488

True Crime on the Elizabethan Stage

489

The Murder of Rizzio, Mary Queen of Scots' Favourite

490

Black Tudors

491

How Powerful was Henry VIII?

492

The First Gun Crime in London

493

Henry VIII's Wives on Stage: Six - The Musical

494

Did Thomas Seymour Groom Elizabeth Tudor?

495

Oliver Cromwell

496

The Last Witches in England

497

England: Devil-Land 1588-1688

498

Ottoman Empire in the Renaissance

499

Singing the News in Tudor England

500

The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn

501

Witches & Puritans

502

Massacre of the Huguenots

503

Mary I's Husband: Philip II of Spain

504

How Catherine of Aragon Learnt to be Queen

505

The 1549 Kett's Rebellion

506

17th & 18th Century Sexual Revolution

507

Lady Jane Grey

508

Sir Thomas More

509

The Gunpowder Plot: Tudor Origins

510

Holbein and the Tudor Court

511

Hans Holbein's Early Years

512

Clothing Tudor Queens

513

Islam and the Elizabethans

514

Making Babies in the 17th Century

515

Ottoman Traveller: Fynes Moryson

516

Tudors in Love

517

Accused of Witchcraft

518

Henry VIII's Break with Rome

519

The Biblical Apocalypse in Münster

520

Beauty Ideals in the 16th Century

521

Bloody Mary vs. The Virgin Queen

522

Alessandro de' Medici, Black Prince of Florence

523

Henry VIII: Defender of the Faith

524

The Witches of Lorraine

525

Beards

526

Sor Juana: Poet, Nun, Martyr

527

Catherine Howard

528

Martin Luther

529

Elizabeth I and Catherine de' Medici

530

16th Century Feminists

531

Sodomy & Sex Crimes in France

532

The Death of Anne Boleyn

533

10 Treasures from the National Trust

534

Coffee & Tobacco

535

Heywood: The Catholic Satirist who Kept his Head

536

Hampton Court: Gold & Glory

537

Charles V: Holy Roman Emperor

538

Louis XIV and his Mistresses

539

Mary, Queen of Scots

540

Japan's Edo Period

541

The French Historie: A Gory Poem

542

A 16th Century Public Executioner

543

Dissolution of the Monasteries

544

The Renaissance Lute

545

Origins of the English in India

546

Anne Boleyn: New Discoveries

547

Anne Boleyn: Life and Afterlives

548

17th Century Female Spies

549

Tudor Banquets

550

The Aztecs

551

The Queer Shakespeare: John Lyly

552

Bridewell: The Palace that became a Prison

553

An Early Modern Teenage Werewolf

554

Henry VIII's Billionaire Wardrobe

555

Velazquez and the Spanish Court