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- What were Black people doing in Tudor England? Playing music, deep-sea diving, exploring, getting married, testifying in court cases, and so much more. Miranda Kauffman shared her research in her 2017 book Black Tudors and joins us on the podcast to explain what you may not know about Black Tudor history.
Buy a copy of Miranda's book Black Tudors (affiliate link)
Further reading on Black British history:
Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga (affiliate link)
African Europeans: An Untold History by Olivette Otele (affiliate link)
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Learn more about Kit and his work at kitheyam.com
And listen to Kit, and other wonderful guests, on the new podcast Time Travelling Queers
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - Marie Maitland was a queer poet living during the tumultuous 16th century in Scotland. Her life and writings were mostly unknown until historian Ashley Douglas began to piece it all together.
Ashley Douglas joins us this week to discuss how she unearthed Marie's story and the importance of queer history.
Buy a copy of Ashley's book With My Own Hand (affiliate link)
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - Witch hunts were at a fever pitch in Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries. Who was hunted, how were they investigated, and how many were executed?
Zoe Venditozzi and Claire Mitchell, KC, from Witches of Scotland are here to explain why we are not the daughters of the witches they didn't burn.
Pick up a copy of Zoe and Claire's book How To Kill a Witch - now in paperback! (affiliate link)
Keep up with their podcast, advocacy work, tartan, and clan at the Witches of Scotland website
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - In 1497, King Henry VII of England sent Italian explorer John Cabot to North America. Over the next two centuries, British adventurers came to various parts of Eastern North America. The objects they picked up, created by Indigenous artisans, sparked various trends back in England.
Author Lauren Working joins us to talk about some of these objects and the way they shaped culture in Tudor England.
Buy a copy of Lauren's book A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Tudor and Stuart England (affiliate link)
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A feminist women's history comedy podcast. We look at history through a feminist lens, focusing on the women often removed from the narrative. This season is all about the Tudor era.
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