The Tudor Chest Podcast
The Tudor Chest Podcast is a brand new podcast series from the popular Instagram and blog - The Tudor Chest. Episodes will feature historian and author, Adam Pennington, creator of the Tudor Chest Platform, as well as guest appearances by notable historians and fellow authors. Episodes will be released weekly, with a focus not solely on Tudor history, but also the Plantagenets and current royal family news.
Episodes

Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
He is one of the most controversial and often villainised figures from Tudor England, but irrelevant of what people may think, Thomas Cromwell was a staggeringly effective statesman's who totally transformed the landscape of English politics and governance. He oversaw the downfall of Queen Anne Boleyn and the dissolution of the monasteries, only to suffer his own fall from grace in 1540, but who was the real man, and why was he one of the very few people who King Henry VIII freely admitted regret at destroying?

Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
She was the sole daughter of a royal countess, Margaret Pole, and thus a great-niece of two of England's kings, Edward IV and Richard III, and yet Ursula Pole, Baroness Stafford's life is seldom explored at length. She would manage to avoid involvement in the scandal that tore her family apart, living twelve years into the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, but who was she, this long forgotten daughter of the house of Plantagenet?

Thursday Nov 16, 2023
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
He is the man to whom all historians and fans of Tudor England owe an enormous debt. Without the work of Hans Holbein, we wouldn't know what practically all the key players of King Henry VIII's court looked like. As a fabulous new exhibition is launched at the Queens Gallery, Buckingham Palace, featuring many of Holbeins original sketches, portraits and creations, there is no more apposite time than to look back at the life of this most iconic Tudor artist, the man who gave us a front row seat to the court of King Henry VIII.

Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
She was the fifth wife of King Henry VIII. Plucked from relative obscurity, Katheryn Howard would reign for just eighteen months before a scandalous affair engulfed the court and ended with the teenage queen becoming the second of Henry VIII's queens to lose her head on the executioners scaffold, but is Katheryn really the airhead history has led us to believe, or was she a victim, brought down by power politics and salacious gossip?

Thursday Nov 02, 2023
Thursday Nov 02, 2023
She was the daughter of a king, the sister of a king and the wife of a king. Princess Mary Tudor, Queen of France and later Duchess of Suffolk was the younger, famously stunning, sister of King Henry VIII. Her scandalous marriage to the king's best friend almost spelt disaster, but she overcame it and twenty years after her death, her granddaughter became the shortest reigning sovereign in English history. In this weeks episode I explore the life of this elusive Tudor princess!

Thursday Oct 26, 2023
Thursday Oct 26, 2023
He was the brother of Henry VIII, the boy born to be king, and yet how much do we actually know about this oft forgotten Tudor prince? In this weeks episode I am thrilled to welcome my first guest, Gareth Streeter to discuss his book "Arthur, Prince of Wales: Henry VIII's Lost Brother". Expert some serious conversation intermingled with a more light-hearted discussion about the virtues of Max Iron..........

Thursday Oct 19, 2023
Thursday Oct 19, 2023
She was one of England's highest members of the nobility. The niece of two king's of England, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth of York, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury was one of only two peeresses in her own right. She was the royal governess to Princess Mary, she was the wealthiest woman in England, with sons who were popular and beloved members of Henry VIII's inner court, and yet, in the end, all of this went against her, for Margaret could not escape the blood that ran in her veins, which eventually put her, and her family, on an explosive collision course with the most volatile man to ever sit on the throne of England.

Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. The six wives of Henry VIII are amongst the most famous women in English history, but a question we seldom ask is who was the true love of King Henry VIII's life? Was it the pious and loyal Catherine of Aragon, the tempestuous and exciting Anne Boleyn, or the dutiful but dull Jane Seymour? In this episode, historian and author Adam Pennington attempts to answer this question.

Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford served the first five queens of King Henry VIII and counted Anne Boleyn as her sister-in-law. Unfortunately, she has been perpetually vilified as the chief source of her husband and sister-in-laws demise, and yet what is the evidence to support this theory? And how did Jane become so embroiled in the scandal of Katheryn Howard's love affairs that she also lost her head to the axeman in 1542?

Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Game of Thrones aired between 2011 and 2019, becoming the biggest and most successful television series of all time. What is not so well known however, is that many of the most iconic characters, storylines and locations from Game of Thrones took direct inspiration from real history. In this weeks episode of The Tudor Chest - The Podcast, I explore these inspirations, examining the Game of Thrones characters inspired by Henry VIII, Margaret of Anjou, Richard III and Anne Boleyn, plus many more! Listen in, to discover the history behind the hit!