Elizabeth I on Screen: The Historians’ Verdict
Not Just the Tudors
History Hit
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
What do you get when you bring together five top historians in a room with bottles of Prosecco to debate Elizabeth I on screen? History with the gloves off - our first Not Just the Tudors Lates!
Taking as her starting point the new series Becoming Elizabeth - now streaming on STARZ - Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Dr. Joanne Paul, Jessie Childs, Alex von Tunzelmann and Professor Sarah Churchwell to explore how television and films have depicted the year 1547 when - following the death of Henry VIII - a complex web of relationships determined the course of British history.
*WARNING! There is some strong language in this episode*
The Senior Producer was Elena Guthrie. It was edited and produced by Rob Weinberg. Audio extracts from Becoming Elizabeth courtesy of STARZ.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're going to be exploring one complex year in English history when a web of relationships |
| 0:11.9 | determine the fate of the country. It's the 28th of January 1547 and Henry VIII has just died. |
| 0:20.2 | His immediate successor is his son by Jane Seymour, now King Edward VI and only nine years old. |
| 0:27.9 | But Henry also left two other children to be provided for. There was Mary, his daughter by Catherine |
| 0:33.9 | of Arrigan, who was now a grown woman of 31, and there was his middle child, his daughter by Ambulin, |
| 0:40.6 | who was Elizabeth, a girl of 13 years old. Henry's death meant that his widow Catherine |
| 0:48.0 | Pa was now free to marry the man she loved, Thomas Seymour, who was Edward's uncle, and Edward's |
| 0:54.4 | other Seymour uncle was now plotting to make himself de facto ruler during the Young King's |
| 1:00.4 | minority. And it's at this tumultuous moment in English history that a new series by stars |
| 1:06.9 | called Becoming Elizabeth begins. And so with that as an excuse and luring them with the |
| 1:13.6 | promise of wine, I have a group of wonderful historian friends joining me here to talk about |
| 1:19.9 | that series, to talk about putting Elizabeth the first on film and what really happened in 1547. |
| 1:28.3 | Welcome to the first of our not just the Tudor Lates history with the Glovers off. |
| 1:41.2 | On my panel I have two leading Tudor historians who have both been on the podcast before. |
| 1:46.4 | Dr. Joanne Paul is senior lecturer in early modern history at the University of Sussex and the |
| 1:51.6 | author of The House of Dudley, a new history of Tudor England which was chosen by the Times |
| 1:56.8 | as one of the best books of summer 2022. Jesse Charles is the author of Henry the Eighths Last Victim |
| 2:02.8 | which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and God's Traders, Tara and Faith |
| 2:08.0 | in Elizabethan England which won the Penn Hessel Tillman Prize for History. Her latest brilliant book is |
| 2:13.2 | The Siege of Loyalty House and they are joined by two historians who have thought about how to put |
| 2:19.6 | history on screen and what history on screen tells us about the age that produces it. |
| 2:25.0 | Alex van Tundzerman is a historian and screenwriter. She is the author of five books, |
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