Talking Tudors

Episode 359 - Rethinking Jane Seymour: The Woman Behind the Myths with Dr Elizabeth Norton

Host Natalie Grueninger interviews Dr Elizabeth Norton about her new book on Jane Seymour, exploring fresh archival discoveries that reshape our view of the queen. They d

Episode 358 - The Real 'Kat Ashley': Elizabeth I's Governess with Rosemary Griggs

Host Natalie Grueninger speaks with historian Rosemary Griggs about her new biography, 'Queen Elizabeth I's Governess: The Real Kat Ashley', which reexamines the life of

Episode 357 - How Ancient Persia Shaped Elizabethan Politics with Ebrahim Joseph

Host Natalie Grueninger interviews historian Ebrahim Joseph about the surprising influence of ancient Persia, especially Cyrus the Great, on Elizabethan England. They exp

Episode 356 - How the Americas Shaped Tudor England with Dr Lauren Working

Host Natalie Grueninger speaks with Dr Lauren Working about her book 'A Golden World' and how voyages to the Americas reshaped 16th‑century England. The episode traces At

Episode 355 - Rethinking the Battle of Wakefield with Dr David Grummitt

Host Natalie Grueninger speaks with Dr David Grummitt about the December 1460 events commonly called the Battle of Wakefield. Dr Grummitt argues the episode was a small a

Episode 354 - Tudor Poetry with Catherine Williams

Host Natalie Grueninger welcomes Catherine Williams to the podcast to discuss Tudor poetry. Follow Catherine Williams on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/catherinevw

Episode 353 - Marie Maitland: Scotland's 16th‑Century Sappho with Dr Ashley Douglas

Host Natalie Grueninger welcomes Dr Ashley Douglas to discuss her new book, 'With My Own Hand: The Secret Life of Marie Maitland, Scotland's Sixteenth-Century Sappho'. Th

Episode 352 - The Accounts of Thomas Boleyn: A Revealing Window into 1526 with Natalie Grueninger & Dr Owen Emmerson

Host Natalie Grueninger and Dr Owen Emmerson examine Thomas Boleyn’s November–December 1526 financial accounts, revealing the family’s substantial landholdings, household

Episode 351 - Rethinking Anne of Cleves with Dr Valerie Schutte

In this episode Natalie Grueninger interviews Dr Valerie Schutte about her upcoming cultural biography of Anne of Cleves. They re-examine long-standing myths about Anne's

Episode 350 - Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' with Cait Murphy-Hurrell

Natalie Grueninger interviews Cait Murphy-Hurrell about Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene', exploring the poem's rich allegory, its portrayal of villainous women and ot

Episode 349 - The Life & Works of Erasmus with Amy McElroy

Host Natalie Grueninger interviews historian Amy McElroy about Desiderius Erasmus, exploring his mysterious early life, education, travels across Europe, and key works su

Episode 348 - A New History of Tudor England with Professor Nandini Das

Professor Nandini Das explores how Tudor and Stuart England were shaped by movement, exchange, and diverse individuals—artists, scholars, missionaries, and sailors—whose

Episode 347 - Rethinking the Wives of Henry VIII with Jessica Carey-Bunning

Host Natalie Grueninger talks with historian Jessica Carey-Bunning about her book 'The Wives of Henry VIII', presenting fresh archival research and new perspectives on ea

Episode 346 - Anne Boleyn: Reputation, Revolution, Religion with Martha Tatarnic

Natalie Grueninger interviews Martha Tatarnic about her new book on Anne Boleyn, exploring how Anne shaped the English Reformation, championed the English Bible, and infl

Queen Anne Boleyn's Imprisonment Through the Eyes of William Kingston with Natalie Grueninger & Dr Owen Emmerson

Natalie Grueninger is in conversation with Dr Owen Emmerson about five surviving letters written by William Kingston during Anne Boleyn’s imprisonment in May 1536. They e

Episode 344 - Bess of Hardwick: An Elizabethan Magnate with Dr Wyn Derbyshire

Host Natalie Grueninger interviews Dr Wyn Derbyshire about the remarkable life of Bess of Hardwick — her uncertain origins, four marriages, sharp business sense, and rise

Episode 343 - Inside the Scriptorium: Medieval Manuscripts and their Makers with Dr Sara Charles

In this episode host Natalie Grueninger speaks with Dr Sara Charles about the production of medieval manuscripts, her hands-on experiments with parchment, inks and pigmen

Episode 342 - The House of Boleyn with Professor Tracy Borman

Host Natalie Grueninger talks with historian and novelist Professor Tracy Borman about her new novel, 'The House of Boleyn', the rise and fall of the Boleyn family, and H

Episode 341 - Henry VII & the Founding of the Tudor Dynasty with Dr Sean Cunningham

Host Natalie Grueninger speaks with Dr Sean Cunningham about Henry VII’s unlikely path from exile to king, the political alliances and myths he used to secure power, and

Episode 340 - The Pretender Who Shook the Throne: Jo Harkin on Lambert Simnel

Author Jo Harkin joins Talking Tudors to discuss her novel 'The Pretender', which imagines the life of Lambert Simnel — a farm boy thrust into Yorkist plots, crowned in D