Not Just the Tudors Episodes Available now
Voices of Thunder: Radical Women of the 17th Century
In a world where the patriarchy ruled supreme, these women risked everything.
Ballads of Magic & Mystery
Songs have always carried stories of love, loss, rebellion and hope.
Henry VIII On Screen: The Historians' Verdict
Where does fiction meet fact? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb investigates
The Last Plantagenets in Tudor England
How did the Plantagenets fair after the Wars of the Roses? Prof. Lipscomb investigates
Fig Leaves & A Grumpy Jesus: Renaissance to Baroque Art
Why is the Virgin Mary always dressed in blue? Does egg tempera smell?
Rudolf II, the "Mad Habsburg Emperor"
How the most enigmatic Habsburg emperor established the heart of Renaissance creativity
Marlowe & Shakespeare: Rivals or Collaborators?
Exploring Dangerous Times: Playwrights, Politics, and Censorship in Elizabethan England
Habsburg Women: Matriarchs of Power
Time to turn our attention to the Empresses and Queens of the Habsburg Dynasty
Vanity of Henry VIII with Kate Lister
With six wives, Henry VIII must have had something going for him, right?
Charles V, Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor
How the "monarch of the world" defined and shaped 16th-century Europe