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True Crime: Murder & the Popish Plot
<p>Was a London magistrate, found dead in a ditch in 1678, the victim of a Catholic conspiracy, political convenience, or secrets too dangerous to survive? Why did Edmund Berry Godfrey's murder send England into hysteria?</p><p>Professor Su
Who Lit the French Revolution?
<p>How did a kingdom of palaces, privilege and powdered wigs collapse into revolution? What turned hunger into uprising?</p><p>In this first episode of our series on the French Revolution, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Dr. Charles Walton
Bess of Hardwick: Elizabethan England's Richest Woman
<p>How did a Derbyshire gentlewoman become England’s richest woman after Elizabeth I? Why does she still fascinate us as her 500th anniversary approaches?</p><p>From four marriages and vast wealth to Hardwick Hall, Chatsworth and the Cavend
Edmund Halley & His Comet
<p>How did our understanding of the universe begin in a London coffee house? How did a man who had a comet named after him change science forever?</p><p>From his youthful voyage to St Helena to chart the southern skies, to his pioneering st
The Mayflower and its Pilgrims
<p>Why did the Pilgrims risk everything in search of a new life and religious freedom? Why does their contested history still matter ahead of the 250th anniversary of American independence?</p><p>In 1620, the Mayflower carried English relig
Jamestown: From Colony to Cannibalism
<p>**This episode contains graphic explorations of starvation and cannibalism**</p><br><p>What happens when a colony reaches the edge of survival?</p><p>In this third episode leading up to the 250th anniversary of American independence,</p>
True Crime: Moll Cutpurse - London's Cross-Dressing Criminal
<p>How did one woman scandalise sixteenth century London by refusing to live by its rules?</p><p>Mary Frith - aka Moll Cutpurse - rejected the expectations of respectable womanhood, wore men’s clothes, smoked a pipe, carried weapons, and fr
Pocahontas & the Virginian Venture
<p>How did the Stuarts turn fragile American outposts into an empire? How did English settlers, Native peoples - including Pocahontas - and London investors shape 17th-century Virginia, and why do these early colonial encounters still matte
How Guns Changed the World
<p>How did the gun become a fashion item in Renaissance Italy? Why do debates over firearms, self-defence and public safety sound so familiar today?</p><p>Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and historian Catherine Fletcher trace the rise of guns f
Elizabethans in America
<p>How did two Indigenous men help shape Elizabethan England's dreams of empire? What do these early encounters tell us about the contested beginnings of colonial America?</p><p>In the 1580s, English explorers ventured west in search of lan
Great Plague of London
<p>What effect did the Great Plague have on Londoners, their society and the wider state?</p><p>Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Rebecca Rideal revisit the summer of 1665, as a few suspicious deaths grew into a crisis that swept through the
Anne Boleyn: Ambition or Faith?
<p>Was Anne Boleyn a seductress, a schemer, or something far more radical? What happens when we look at Anne not through the lens of sex and scandal, but through religion?</p><p>From Tudor observers to <em>Six the Musical</em>, Anne Boleyn
Rise & Fall of James IV of Scotland
<p>How did a teenage rebel become Scotland’s king, and rule a realm riven by feuds and shifting loyalties? James IV balanced chivalry, diplomacy, and danger, yet led his country to catastrophe.</p><p>Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Prof. Mi
True Crime: Medici Murder at the Louvre
<p>**Warning: Contains graphic description of the mutilation of corpses**</p><br><p>In April 1617, Concino Concini, Marshal of France, was shot dead as he entered the Louvre. But his murder was only the beginning of a terrifying chain of ev
The Tudors Abroad
<p>What did it mean to be English when merchants, sailors, captives, diplomats, and migrants were constantly crossing borders?</p><p>Pirates, a Kentish man becoming a Samurai and a king on the warpath; Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Profes
Royal Favourites: Hatton, Elizabeth I's Favourite
<p>How did Sir Christopher Hatton became one of Elizabeth I’s favourites? How true were the rumours that they were lovers?</p><p>After catching the Queen's eye in 1561, Hatton was quickly promoted to the Privy Council, making a significant
Battle of the Eras: Medieval v. Early Modern
<p>What if the medieval world did not end with a bang, but with a messy argument over who gets to define history itself? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb spars with Gone Medieval's host Matt Lewis over Gutenberg, the Reformation, witchcraft, pla
Royal Favourites: Queen Anne & Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
<p>How did Sarah Churchill become the most powerful woman in Queen Anne’s court? What happens when a royal friendship turns into a political battlefield? How did one absent set of jewels signal the beginning of the end?</p><p>Professor Suza
Louis XIV: Sun King and Propagandist
<p>How did Louis XIV use his day-to-day life, especially his marriage, to help create the mythology of the Sun King as semi-divine, radiant and unrivalled?</p><p>In 17th-century France, monarchy was performed, witnessed, and widely circulat
Royal Favourites: James I and George Villiers
<p>How did a relatively humble gentleman become the most powerful man in Stuart England?</p><p>Few figures embodied the glamour and instability of the Jacobean court more completely than George Villiers, who rose to become one of the most i
Hoaxes and Lies in the Enlightenment
<p>How did a ghost story bring London to a standstill? Was it a haunting, a fraud, or something even more revealing about Georgian society? Why did rational, educated people fall for elaborate hoaxes?</p><p>Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is jo
Royal Favourites: Robert Dudley, Elizabeth I's Forbidden Love
<p>Passion, scandal, and power collided in the tumultuous relationship between Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley. Rumours of secret trysts between them set the court ablaze, but their love was doomed from the start.</p><p>In the first of four e
Anne of Cleves: New Discoveries
<p>What if Henry VIII’s “discarded bride” actually showed real promise as queen?</p><p>Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Dr James Taffe to discuss new discoveries about Anne of Cleves’ surviving account book, a rare 200-page record o
Francisco de Cuéllar: Spanish Armada Captain
<p>How did a condemned Spanish Armada captain survive shipwreck, betrayal, and war to leave behind one of the most extraordinary first-person accounts of the 16th century?</p><p>Francisco de Cuéllar was a career officer shaped by the harsh
Anne Boleyn at Hever Castle
<p>What was Anne Boleyn like before she became the most controversial queen in English history? Can the rooms and gardens at her childhood home reveal more about the world that shaped her?</p><p>Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Dr.
Maria Theresa, Habsburg Empress
<p>How did a woman rise to power, and keep it, in the fiercely male-dominated Habsburg Empire?</p><p>From her distrust of the Enlightenment to her religious intolerance, and from family strategy to imperial power, Maria Theresa was a remark
Elizabethans in India
<p>How did England’s earliest travellers to India try to win favour in a Mughal golden age that scarcely noticed them?</p><p>Professor Suzannah Lipscomb speaks with Dr Lubaaba Al-Azami about Tudor and early Stuart England’s turn to global t
Lady Jane Grey
<p>What if becoming queen was the worst thing that could happen to you? What if the crown became your death sentence?</p><p>Professor Suzannah Lipscomb explores the tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the brilliant, devout teenager, who was pro
Grace O'Malley, Ireland's Pirate Queen
<p>She cut off her hair to sail the seas. She divorced her husband by locking him out of his own castle. And when her son was killed by the occupying English, she sailed straight up the Thames to plead for help from Elizabeth I. Or did she?
Elizabethan Boy Actresses
<p>Why were Shakespeare’s greatest heroines played by teenage boys? How did they learn their craft? On the Elizabethan stage, highly trained young men progressed from minor parts to play some of the Bard's most famous heroines, including Ju
