Not Just the Tudors

Not Just the Tudors

History Hit

Episodes 535
Avg. Duration 43m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.8 (1,937)
Since Apr 2021
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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About This Podcast

Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks about everything from the Aztecs to witches, Velázquez to Shakespeare, Mughal India to the Mayflower. Not, in other words, just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors.


Each episode Suzannah is joined by historians and experts to reveal incredible stories about one of the most fascinating periods in history, new releases every Wednesday and Sunday.


A podcast by History Hit, the world's best history channel and creators of award-winning podcasts Dan Snow's History Hit, The Ancients, and Betwixt the Sheets.


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Recent Episodes

Great Plague of London

Jun 11, 2026 54m

What effect did the Great Plague have on Londoners, their society and the wider state?Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Rebecca Rideal revisit the summer of 1665, as a few suspicious deaths grew into a…

Anne Boleyn: Ambition or Faith?

Jun 08, 2026 46m

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?From Tudor observers to Six the…

Rise & Fall of James IV of Scotland

Jun 04, 2026 56m

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.Professor…

True Crime: Medici Murder at the Louvre

Jun 01, 2026 51m

**Warning: Contains graphic description of the mutilation of corpses**In April 1617, Concino Concini, Marshal of France, was shot dead as he entered the Louvre. But his murder was only the beginning…

The Tudors Abroad

May 28, 2026 56m

What did it mean to be English when merchants, sailors, captives, diplomats, and migrants were constantly crossing borders?Pirates, a Kentish man becoming a Samurai and a king on the warpath;…

Royal Favourites: Hatton, Elizabeth I's Favourite

May 25, 2026 41m

How did Sir Christopher Hatton became one of Elizabeth I’s favourites?  How true were the rumours that they were lovers?After catching the Queen's eye in 1561, Hatton was quickly promoted to the…

Battle of the Eras: Medieval v. Early Modern

May 21, 2026 55m

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…

Royal Favourites: Queen Anne & Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough

May 18, 2026 47m

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…

Louis XIV: Sun King and Propagandist

May 14, 2026 47m

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?In 17th-century France, monarchy was performed,…

Royal Favourites: James I and George Villiers

May 11, 2026 1h 3m

How did a relatively humble gentleman become the most powerful man in Stuart England?Few figures embodied the glamour and instability of the Jacobean court more completely than George Villiers, who…

Hoaxes and Lies in the Enlightenment

May 07, 2026 56m

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…

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

May 04, 2026 43m

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…

Anne of Cleves: New Discoveries

Apr 30, 2026 46m

What if Henry VIII’s “discarded bride” actually showed real promise as queen?Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Dr James Taffe to discuss new discoveries about Anne of Cleves’ surviving account…

Francisco de Cuéllar: Spanish Armada Captain

Apr 27, 2026 48m

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?Francisco de Cuéllar was a…

Anne Boleyn at Hever Castle

Apr 23, 2026 53m

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?Professor…

Maria Theresa, Habsburg Empress

Apr 20, 2026 50m

How did a woman rise to power, and keep it, in the fiercely male-dominated Habsburg Empire?From her distrust of the Enlightenment to her religious intolerance, and from family strategy to imperial…

Elizabethans in India

Apr 16, 2026 55m

How did England’s earliest travellers to India try to win favour in a Mughal golden age that scarcely noticed them?Professor Suzannah Lipscomb speaks with Dr Lubaaba Al-Azami about Tudor and early…

Lady Jane Grey

Apr 13, 2026 49m

What if becoming queen was the worst thing that could happen to you? What if the crown became your death sentence?Professor Suzannah Lipscomb explores the tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the…

Grace O'Malley, Ireland's Pirate Queen

Apr 09, 2026 46m

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…

Elizabethan Boy Actresses

Apr 06, 2026 50m

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…

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