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Dan Snow's History Hit

Life in Tudor England

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.712.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

What was life really like in Tudor England? This was a society where monarchy was under strain, the church was in crisis and contending with war, rebellion, plague and poverty was a fact of daily life. Yet it was also an age rich in ideas and ideals, where women asserted their agency and found a literary voice. 


In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Dr. Lucy Wooding, who has written a bold new history of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England, presenting a starkly different picture of this famous era from the one we thought we know.


The Senior Producer was Elena Guthrie. It was edited and produced by Rob Weinberg. 


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0:00.0

Hi there, history hit fans. Just let you know about another podcast we got.

0:04.2

Not just the tutors, with professors who's on the lips come. You know what I'm all

0:07.4

curious about? Most people ask me, what's professors on the lips come like? So you can find

0:11.6

out for yourself, I say. Listen to her flipping podcast. It's right here available. Wherever

0:16.4

you get your pods, not just the tutors. You know what that's about? The tutors, but not

0:20.6

just the tutors. She talks about the Aztecs. She talks about the Yuan dynasty, the Ming

0:25.4

dynasty, the Mugals. She talks about everything that's going on in that wonderful age, the

0:29.6

Renaissance, that remarkable age of growth, beauty, tragedy, terror and transformation, the

0:36.6

16th and 17th centuries. You've got to go and check it out folks. Go and listen for all

0:41.2

of your chewedder and chewedder plus requirements. Get involved. This is our lips come podcast.

0:47.3

Not just the tutors, wherever you get your pods.

0:49.8

To write a history of the long tutors' century from 1485 to 1603 must surely be a daunting

1:02.6

task. To write one that incorporates political, social and religious change for both the

1:09.5

tutors' monarchs and ordinary people, that encompasses literature and plays, rebellions,

1:15.1

warfare and the latest scholarship on the role of women is no mean feat. And on top of

1:20.6

that, to write a history that demolishes historical fables, reassessors received wisdom

1:26.4

and puts forward new understandings of the period in clear, lucid prose. Well, that's

1:32.7

something remarkable indeed. And that is the mammoth task that has been accomplished

1:37.4

by today's guest in her new book, Tudor England, A History, published by Yale University

1:43.7

Press. Its author is Dr Lucy Wooding. She is Langford Fellow and tutor in history at Lincoln

1:50.4

College Oxford and her other books include an excellent biography of Henry the Ith.

2:00.8

Dr Lucy Wooding, thank you so much for inviting me to your rooms here at Lincoln College

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