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1

Edmund Halley & His Comet

2

The Mayflower and its Pilgrims

3

Jamestown: From Colony to Cannibalism

4

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

5

Pocahontas & the Virginian Venture

6

How Guns Changed the World

7

Elizabethans in America

8

Great Plague of London

9

Anne Boleyn: Ambition or Faith?

10

Rise & Fall of James IV of Scotland

11

True Crime: Medici Murder at the Louvre

12

The Tudors Abroad

13

Royal Favourites: Hatton, Elizabeth I's Favourite

14

Battle of the Eras: Medieval v. Early Modern

15

Royal Favourites: Queen Anne & Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough

16

Louis XIV: Sun King and Propagandist

17

Royal Favourites: James I and George Villiers

18

Hoaxes and Lies in the Enlightenment

19

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

20

Anne of Cleves: New Discoveries

21

Francisco de Cuéllar: Spanish Armada Captain

22

Anne Boleyn at Hever Castle

23

Maria Theresa, Habsburg Empress

24

Elizabethans in India

25

Lady Jane Grey

26

Grace O'Malley, Ireland's Pirate Queen

27

Elizabethan Boy Actresses

28

When the Spanish Armada Reached Ireland

29

Henry Wotton: Outlaw and Royal Spy

30

The Rise and Fall of Pirate Captain Kidd

31

Plantagenet vs. Tudor: Who was the Rightful King?

32

Tudor True Crime: The First Female Serial Killer?

33

Plots against Elizabeth I

34

Colonial Women of the Americas

35

Regime Change: From Stuart to Hanover

36

Henry VII: Reign of Jeopardy

37

Queen Anne: The Last Stuart Monarch

38

When Elves & Fairies Lived Among Us

39

Queen Mary II & the Glorious Revolution

40

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

41

James II: The Restoration's Last Catholic King

42

Katherine Howard's Deadly Affairs

43

Charles II: Restoration of the Monarchy

44

Why Cromwell's Republic Failed

45

"Bloody Mary": Debunking the Myths

46

Ireland Under the Brutal Tudors

47

Elizabeth I's Doctor - & Poisoner?

48

Girl With a Pearl Earring: Identity Revealed

49

Henry VIII's Reckoning: Pilgrimage of Grace

50

Hamnet

51

Tudor True Crime: Murder in Renaissance Rome

52

Elizabeth I's Succession Crisis

53

Christopher Marlowe: A Dangerous Life

54

Enchanted Realms: Fairies in the 16th Century

55

The Secrets Hidden In Tudor Art

56

Princes in the Tower

57

Did Oliver Cromwell Ban Christmas?

58

From Succession to Codpieces: Your Tudor Questions Answered

59

Surviving Plague in Venice

60

Elizabeth Boleyn: The Queen's Mother

61

Henry VIII At War

62

How Poets Spoke Truth to Power

63

Dark Side of the Quakers

64

Mother of All Tudors: Margaret Beaufort

65

Origins of Free Speech

66

Raleigh and the Lost Colony of Roanoke

67

Tudor True Crime: Who Murdered Lord Darnley?

68

Hans Holbein: New Discoveries

69

The Rise of St Paul's Cathedral

70

What if Guy Fawkes had succeeded?

71

King vs. Emperor: The Battle of Pavia, 1525

72

Diary of Samuel Pepys

73

Jane Boleyn with Philippa Gregory

74

When Europe met Islam

75

How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England

76

Ballads of Magic & Mystery

77

Voices of Thunder: Radical Women of the 17th Century

78

Henry VIII on Screen: The Historians' Verdict

79

The Last Plantagenets in Tudor England

80

Fig Leaves & A Grumpy Jesus: Renaissance to Baroque Art

81

Rudolf II, the "Mad Habsburg Emperor"

82

Marlowe & Shakespeare: Rivals or Collaborators?

83

Habsburg Women: Matriarchs of Power

84

Vanity of Henry VIII with Kate Lister

85

Charles V, Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor

86

Shakespeare's Male Muse: A Mystery Solved?

87

Rise of the Habsburgs

88

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

89

English Civil War Pt.1

90

Tudor True Crime: Europe's Most Murderous Dynasty

91

Tudor True Crime: Murder in the Stuart Court

92

Tudor True Crime: Murder of Amy Dudley

93

Tudor True Crime: Murder of Christopher Marlowe

94

Othered: Race, Gender & Human 'Monsters'

95

Molière: Satire, Scandal & the Stage

96

Vasari: Inventor of Artistic Genius

97

British Barbary Slaves

98

Isabel and Ferdinand: Renaissance Power Couple

99

The Rise of Isabel of Castile

100

Bonnie Prince Charlie & the Jacobite Rebellion

101

The Restoration Queen: Maria of Modena

102

When Women Ruled the Low Countries

103

Nicholas Culpeper: Herbalist and Radical

104

Mary Rose & the Battle of the Solent

105

The Roma: Resistance & Survival

106

The Duchess of Malfi

107

Prelude to the English Civil War

108

Akbar, the Great Mughal

109

Shakespeare's Family: New Discoveries

110

Jane Austen & the Reformation

111

Accidental Deaths in Tudor England

112

Isabella d’Este: Renaissance Influencer

113

Mystery of the Cheapside Hoard

114

Fall of Thomas More

115

Rise of Thomas More

116

John Dee's Angels

117

Philip II of Spain, King of England

118

Dancing Plague of 1518

119

How to Kill a Scottish Witch

120

Shakespeare's First Playhouse

121

Young Elizabeth I

122

The Maya and the Inquisition

123

The Elizabethans and Islam

124

The Dark Side of Sir Francis Drake

125

Tudors & Their Dogs

126

The Caribbean, Colonisers & Christianity

127

Cardinal Wolsey

128

Cortés and the Aztecs

129

Succession 1625: James I to Charles I

130

Christopher Columbus

131

Henry VIII's Conscience and Contradictions

132

Conquest of the Americas

133

What did Henry VIII Believe?

134

Aphra Behn: Revolutionary, Author, Spy

135

Dr Faustus: Pacts with the Devil

136

Henry VIII & his Rabbis

137

Murderous Women

138

The Birth of New York City

139

Ireland's Witchcraft Trials

140

Robert Dudley: Elizabeth I's Forbidden Love

141

Shakespeare's Daughter, Judith

142

The Great Siege of Malta

143

How to Run a Stuart Household

144

Giordano Bruno: Mystic, Heretic, Spy

145

German Peasants' War

146

Versailles: Science & Splendour

147

Nell Gwyn: Actress and Royal Mistress

148

Rene Descartes

149

When Europeans reached Australia

150

Lucrezia Borgia

151

Little Ice Age

152

Mysterious Murder of Juan Borgia

153

Wolf Hall: Who's Who?

154

Cesare Borgia

155

Dissolution of the Monasteries

156

Rise of the Borgias

157

Machiavelli

158

Six Wives: Katherine Howard & Kateryn Parr

159

Sir Christopher Wren

160

Six Wives: Jane Seymour & Anne of Cleves

161

Six Wives: Katherine of Aragon & Anne Boleyn

162

The Bible

163

Pirates of the Pacific & the Spanish Empire

164

Marie Antoinette

165

Elizabeth I & the Sultan of Morocco

166

William III & the Persecution of Sodomites

167

Majestic Mughals: From Akbar to Shah Jahan

168

The Witches of Lorraine

169

The Women who Painted the Tudors

170

Practical Magic: Spells, Prayers & Cunning Folk

171

Leonardo da Vinci with Ken Burns

172

Witchfinder General

173

Invisible Activists of the Reformation

174

The Witch

175

Fireworks: From the Tudors to Guy Fawkes

176

The Brutal Basque Witch Hunt

177

Africans in 17th Century England

178

The Tudor World at Hampton Court

179

The Spanish Armada

180

Henry VIII's Brothers in Armour

181

Oliver Cromwell: Massacres & Manoeuvres

182

Elizabeth I's Conjuror: John Dee

183

Floral Messages in the Tudor Court

184

The Rise and Fall of Jane Boleyn

185

William and Mary's Glorious Revolution

186

Mystic Visionary: Teresa of Avila

187

Rosy Royals: Tudor & Stuart Gardens

188

Oliver Cromwell: Protector & Dictator

189

When Britain was a Republic

190

Kateryn Parr on Film: Firebrand

191

How to Survive the Plague

192

Elizabeth I Slept Here: Longleat House

193

Omens, Signs and False Prophets

194

Catherine de' Medici, Serpent Queen

195

The Tragic Travels of Fynes Moryson

196

Medici Popes: Power over Piety

197

How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

198

Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent

199

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

200

Rise of the Medici

201

Magellan: The First Man to Sail the World

202

Henry VII: Rise of the Medieval Tudors

203

Vivaldi’s Greatest Protegé

204

Charles II's Most Infamous Mistress: Barbara Villiers

205

The Mighty Ashanti: Rival to the British Empire

206

Spycraft: From the Elizabethans to the Restoration

207

The Death of Henry VIII

208

The First Japanese Visitor to Elizabethan England

209

Charles II's Lost Queen: Catherine de Braganza

210

Ultimate Tudor Spy-Master: Robert Cecil

211

Six Wives: Kateryn Parr

212

Women Pirates of the Caribbean

213

Six Wives: Katherine Howard

214

Legendary Woman Samurai: Hosokawa Gracia

215

Six Wives: Anne of Cleves

216

Shakespeare's Players: Burbage and Kempe

217

Six Wives: Jane Seymour

218

A Tudor Mystery: The Girl Who Could Be Queen

219

Six Wives: Anne Boleyn

220

The Preacher Too Radical for Luther

221

Female Spies in the 17th Century

222

Six Wives: Katherine of Aragon

223

Henry VIII's Sister, Margaret Queen of Scots

224

Shogun: The Real First English Samurai

225

Shardlake and its Creator C.J. Sansom

226

Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe

227

Walter Raleigh’s Quest for El Dorado

228

From Tudor to Stuart: Regime Change

229

Diving Tudor Shipwrecks

230

The Birth of Science in 16th Century Europe

231

How Spices Shaped the Modern World

232

Elizabeth I: Make-Up & Beauty Tips

233

Unusual Births and Disability in 17th Century England

234

Seducing James I: Mary & George

235

Erasmus: Renaissance Radical

236

Wars of Religion: A Woman's Fight for Justice

237

Martin Luther

238

Surgery in the Early Modern Age

239

Jewish History of Venice

240

Tudor Ladies-in-Waiting

241

Diary of a Tudor Gentlewoman

242

Trial of Charles I

243

How to Live Like a Stuart Aristocrat

244

Jane Seymour: Henry VIII’s Third Queen

245

Adventures of a Mughal Princess

246

Origins of Fairy Tales

247

Science vs. Witchcraft: The Kepler Trial

248

Ghosts & Guardian Angels

249

The Rise and Fall of Britain's Islands

250

Origins of the Condom

251

Fairies in the Early Modern Era

252

Private Life of King James VI & I

253

Supernatural Beings in Early Modern Britain

254

Tudor Conquest of Ireland

255

How Ecology Shaped History with Peter Frankopan

256

Henry VIII's Nemesis, Cardinal Pole

257

Murder in the Stuart Court

258

Trading British Brides for American Tobacco

259

15th Century Puritan Fanatic, Savonarola

260

How to Survive in Tudor England

261

Elizabeth I's Spymaster, Walsingham

262

Princes in the Tower: The Tudor Pretenders?

263

Tudors in Love

264

The Black Medici Prince of Florence

265

Tudor Ghosts and Angels

266

How the Elizabethan World Shaped Shakespeare

267

Origins of Pantomime

268

How the Reformation Changed Music

269

The Tudors' Portrait Artist: Holbein

270

3 Ways to Die in Early Modern Europe

271

Montaigne: Philosopher of the French Renaissance

272

Saving Henry VIII's Lost Tapestry

273

Mary I: What if She'd Lived?

274

Inside Hampton Court Palace

275

Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I with Tracy Borman

276

Henry VIII: What You Really Need to Know

277

Witchcraft: Everything You Need to Know

278

Henry VII

279

Gunpowder Plot: Tudor Origins

280

Origins of the Witchfinder General

281

Black Tudors

282

Inside the Tudor Home

283

The Tudors Told Through Numbers

284

Shakespeare's son Hamnet with Maggie O'Farrell

285

William the Silent, Father of the Netherlands

286

Witchcraft: A History in Four Trials

287

Normal Women with Philippa Gregory

288

How Shakespeare Depicted Race

289

Anne Boleyn & Catherine Howard's Uncle, Thomas Howard

290

How Kateryn Parr Championed the Reformation

291

Eating with the Tudors

292

Henry VIII’s Fool, Will Somer

293

Margaret Cavendish: 17th Century Revolutionary

294

Hapsburg Inbreeding with Dr. Adam Rutherford

295

Michelangelo

296

Origins of Modern Iran: Safawid Dynasty

297

Dutch Golden Age: 'The Goldfinch' and its Painter

298

Henry VIII's Billionaire Wardrobe

299

Girls on Stage and Page in the Elizabethan Age

300

Stealing the Crown Jewels with Al Murray

301

Elizabeth I's Censored Annals: A Major Discovery

302

Christopher Wren

303

Treasures of Lambeth Palace

304

Seymour, Dudley & Parr Families: Forgotten Tudor Women

305

The African Samurai

306

Gentileschi: Greatest Female Artist of the Baroque Age

307

Tudor Gifts: How to Win Friends and Influence People

308

The Reformation: What Catholics & Protestants Believed

309

Ivan the Terrible

310

Tudor Queens: The Power of Jewellery

311

Elizabethan Rivals: Francis Bacon & Edward Coke

312

Francis Drake's Discovery of West Coast America

313

Thomas More on Film: The Historians' Verdict

314

Elizabeth I's Musician: William Byrd

315

Shakespeare's Plays: The Power of Gestures

316

Transgender Fairies in Early Modern Literature

317

Shakespeare's London: Going to the Theatre

318

Elizabeth I’s Royal Tours

319

Cromwell, Boleyn & Aragon: A New Discovery

320

Shakespeare’s First Folio: Politics, People & Printing

321

Elizabethan 'Travel Liar': The Truth about David Ingram

322

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

323

Shakespeare's First Folio

324

Great Fire of London

325

Tudors in Ireland

326

Obscene Jokes in the Early Modern Period

327

Anne Boleyn & Katherine of Aragon: Rival Queens?

328

Enslaved Children in 16th Century Spain

329

Witches of St Osyth

330

Louis XIV and his Mistresses

331

Coronations of Charles I and Charles II

332

Lady Jane Grey

333

England’s First Ambassador to India: Thomas Roe

334

Mary Rose: Henry VIII’s Foreign Crew

335

Bess's Hardwick Hall

336

John Donne: England’s Greatest Love Poet

337

Willoughbyland: England's Lost Colony

338

Catherine Howard: Henry VIII's Fifth Wife

339

Mary, Queen of Scots on Film: Historians’ Verdict

340

Creator of Don Quixote: Cervantes

341

How People Died in 16th Century London

342

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Renaissance Painter

343

17th Century Revolutionary England

344

Who Painted Anne Dudley? A Tudor Mystery

345

Menstruation in Early Modern England

346

Anne Boleyn’s Final Year

347

The Myth of 'Western Civilisation'

348

Katherine of Aragon: England's First Renaissance Queen

349

Jews & the Inquisition in Italy

350

The Death of Amy Dudley

351

The Blood Countess: Elizabeth Bathory

352

Mary Queen of Scots’ Lost Letters Decoded

353

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

354

Children in Tudor England

355

The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

356

Henrietta Maria, Charles I’s Queen Consort

357

Marguerite de Navarre: Mother of Renaissance France

358

When London Shipped Poor Children to America

359

Hatton: Elizabeth I's Favourite?

360

Batavia: The Worst Shipwreck in History

361

Swords in Elizabethan England

362

Demonic Possession in 17th-Century Canada

363

Nonsuch: Henry VIII's Lost Palace

364

How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

365

Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu

366

Birth of the Gregorian calendar

367

A Happy Tudor New Year

368

The Biggest Discoveries of 2022

369

Tudor Christmas Carols

370

Filth, Noise & Stench in England

371

The First Printed English Bible

372

Mary, Queen of Scots: The Material Evidence

373

Making Babies in the 17th Century

374

Huygens: Europe’s Greatest Scientist

375

Public Executions in London

376

Fall of the Ming Dynasty

377

Football and the Tudors

378

Henry VIII’s Lost Brother, Prince Arthur

379

Oliver Cromwell’s Republic

380

Inca Apocalypse

381

Life in Tudor England

382

Mary I: Myths Vs. Reality

383

Sorcery and the Tudor Court

384

Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India

385

Edward VI & The Prayer Book Rebellion

386

Eustace Chapuys: Ambassador to the Tudor Court

387

Female Sodomy

388

Women Letter Writers in the Early Modern Period

389

Malay’s Dynasty of Reigning Queens

390

The Legacy of the Mary Rose

391

The Raising of the Mary Rose

392

Remembering Hilary Mantel

393

The Sinking of the Mary Rose

394

Slavery and the Royal African Company

395

The Howard Women

396

Magellan 500: The First Man to Sail the World

397

Elizabethan England's Seafaring Musicians

398

Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing

399

Shakespeare’s Henry V

400

A 16th Century Celebrity Executioner

401

Thomas Cromwell's Private Life

402

The Borgias: Sin in Renaissance Italy

403

Elizabeth I on Screen: The Historians’ Verdict

404

Becoming Elizabeth I

405

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

406

Samuel Pepys

407

Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army

408

The Trial of a Latvian Werewolf

409

The Tudors and Food

410

The Cultural Impact of Colonisation

411

The Venetian Inquisition

412

Anne of Cleves

413

The Man who Wrote Robinson Crusoe: Daniel Dafoe

414

Isaac Newton

415

Tudor Poet Anne Askew: Heretic or Martyr?

416

Surviving Plague in Florence

417

Elizabeth I: Last Days and Legacy

418

Was Queenship the Same Around the World?

419

How to Crown a Tudor Queen

420

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

421

Mary II and Anne: Sister Queens

422

How to Become Queen in Early Modern Europe

423

The Queen Who Was Crowned King

424

Tudor England's Foreign Queens

425

Queen Consorts in the Renaissance

426

Isabella & Ferdinand's Granada

427

The Man Who Broke Michelangelo's Nose

428

Religious Exiles in Early Modern Europe

429

Anne Boleyn: Dispelling the Myths

430

The English Civil War: Loyalty House

431

The Founding of Jamestown

432

How to Treat Depression in 17th Century England

433

Sex & The Tudors

434

Walter Raleigh's Quest for El Dorado

435

Suleyman the Magnificent

436

Discovering Hampton Court

437

Milton's Paradise Lost: An Epic Poem

438

How Tudor England Treated Outsiders

439

The House of Dudley

440

Francesca Caccini: Composer to the Medicis

441

The Tudors in Portraits

442

The Taj Mahal & the Emperor Who Built It

443

François I, King of France

444

Anne Boleyn's Early Life

445

The Founding of Cape Town

446

The End of Monasteries

447

Henry VIII's Courtier, Sir Thomas Wyatt

448

The Real Cyrano de Bergerac

449

Elizabeth Stuart: The Forgotten Queen

450

Elizabeth I's Favourite Painter: Hilliard

451

How the Tudors Told Time

452

Same-Sex Marriages in Renaissance Rome

453

Oliver Cromwell's Wife and Daughters

454

Escaping Slavery in London

455

Women's Work in 17th Century London

456

The Glencoe Massacre

457

Kateryn Parr: Henry VIII's Sixth Queen

458

Travel in the Ming Dynasty

459

Edward VI: The Last Boy King

460

Antwerp: Renaissance Europe's Dazzling Sea Port

461

Death of Henry VIII

462

Henry VIII & Jousting

463

Kate Mosse: Writing Historical Fiction

464

Cardinal Wolsey

465

Elizabeth I & Mary, Queen of Scots

466

1492: The Year the Spanish Monarchy Changed the World

467

Franz Hals: Painter of The Laughing Cavalier

468

2022: A Year of Major Anniversaries

469

A Happy Tudor New Year

470

Biggest Tudor Discoveries 2021

471

Tudor Ghosts and Angels

472

Witches of Iceland

473

Tudor Box Set Binge

474

Dürer: The Great Renaissance Artist

475

True Crime on the Elizabethan Stage

476

The Murder of Rizzio, Mary Queen of Scots' Favourite

477

Black Tudors

478

How Powerful was Henry VIII?

479

The First Gun Crime in London

480

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

481

Did Thomas Seymour Groom Elizabeth Tudor?

482

Oliver Cromwell

483

The Last Witches in England

484

England: Devil-Land 1588-1688

485

Ottoman Empire in the Renaissance

486

Singing the News in Tudor England

487

The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn

488

Witches & Puritans

489

Massacre of the Huguenots

490

Mary I's Husband: Philip II of Spain

491

How Catherine of Aragon Learnt to be Queen

492

The 1549 Kett's Rebellion

493

17th & 18th Century Sexual Revolution

494

Lady Jane Grey

495

Sir Thomas More

496

The Gunpowder Plot: Tudor Origins

497

Holbein and the Tudor Court

498

Hans Holbein's Early Years

499

Clothing Tudor Queens

500

Islam and the Elizabethans

501

Making Babies in the 17th Century

502

Ottoman Traveller: Fynes Moryson

503

Tudors in Love

504

Accused of Witchcraft

505

Henry VIII's Break with Rome

506

The Biblical Apocalypse in Münster

507

Beauty Ideals in the 16th Century

508

Bloody Mary vs. The Virgin Queen

509

Alessandro de' Medici, Black Prince of Florence

510

Henry VIII: Defender of the Faith

511

The Witches of Lorraine

512

Beards

513

Sor Juana: Poet, Nun, Martyr

514

Catherine Howard

515

Martin Luther

516

Elizabeth I and Catherine de' Medici

517

16th Century Feminists

518

Sodomy & Sex Crimes in France

519

The Death of Anne Boleyn

520

10 Treasures from the National Trust

521

Coffee & Tobacco

522

Heywood: The Catholic Satirist who Kept his Head

523

Hampton Court: Gold & Glory

524

Charles V: Holy Roman Emperor

525

Louis XIV and his Mistresses

526

Mary, Queen of Scots

527

Japan's Edo Period

528

The French Historie: A Gory Poem

529

A 16th Century Public Executioner

530

Dissolution of the Monasteries

531

The Renaissance Lute

532

Origins of the English in India

533

Anne Boleyn: New Discoveries

534

Anne Boleyn: Life and Afterlives

535

17th Century Female Spies

536

Tudor Banquets

537

The Aztecs

538

The Queer Shakespeare: John Lyly

539

Bridewell: The Palace that became a Prison

540

An Early Modern Teenage Werewolf

541

Henry VIII's Billionaire Wardrobe

542

Velazquez and the Spanish Court