5.1 - 196 The Early Tudors, 1485 - 1554
The History of England
David Crowther
4.8 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
After an introduction to series 5, we take an episode to survery the state of the nation in 1485, England at the Dawn of the Tudor Age. England in 1485 was at once a deeply traditional medieval society. And yet poised at the edge of change - economic, social, religious and political. The 16th century would see profound changes presided over by one dynasty - the Tudors.
Series 5 covers 1485 to 1554, and the reigns of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI and Jane
196 - 209 Are about Henry VII, the end of the Wars of the Roses and his success in establishing the legitimacy of the new dynasty
210 - 226Are about the early reign of Henry VIII, under the guidance of his first Great Minister, Cardinal Wolsey
227 - 238 Concern Henry's reformation and we have a debate about Anne Boleyn
239 - 252 Looks around a bit at Henry's kingom, Thomas Cromwell, Henry's decling years, illness and factionalism
252 - 262Includes a survey of European History for some context, and then Edward Vi, Thomas Cranmer - and the real Reformation
263 - 265 Is all about Queen Jane's Nine days, and Mary's usurpation of her throne.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the HISTRYLING LAND Episode 196 England and the opening of the |
| 0:17.3 | Tudor Age. As you will realise from last week, I am in scene setting mode. No doubt |
| 0:26.2 | you are impatient for me to get on with the Tudor years that fascinates so many of us. |
| 0:31.5 | And yet, and yet, I find myself unwilling to take that first step, even though we start |
| 0:38.0 | with the least well-known of the Tudors in Henry VII. I feel the need to linger on the |
| 0:42.6 | doorstep of medieval England and the modern age. So, no, sadly, I have to ask you to indulge |
| 0:48.5 | me. In my desire to set the scene, I make sure we're all at the same point in the story |
| 0:54.0 | about where England is in the scheme of things. Also, I did wonder if there are folks |
| 0:59.0 | out there who give not a tinker's curse about medieval England and only start getting |
| 1:03.3 | excited when the Tudors appear. If so, I thought it would be only polite of me to give |
| 1:09.3 | folks a place to start. Start here. |
| 1:15.0 | Last time, I therefore tried to give you an idea of the European political world in which |
| 1:19.1 | England sat, and its rather peripheral position within it. This week, I want to do that |
| 1:26.0 | with the stating which England find itself in social terms at the start of what is called |
| 1:30.4 | by historians, despite constant backbouting about it, the early modern age. I should |
| 1:36.7 | stop apologising, but one more thing. Most of what I talk about today, we will probably |
| 1:42.5 | have covered elsewhere before. But let me try and pull it together and summarise it |
| 1:47.1 | that sort of thing. So let's start with a little survey of the British |
| 1:51.8 | Isles and more specifically England. To say that the British Isles is composed broadly |
| 1:57.1 | of four people's is going to upset somebody, and I expect comments. I expect God's own |
| 2:02.9 | county of Yorkshire to run up a flag somewhere and digitally burn the history of England |
| 2:07.4 | podcast in the streets. I expect the Cornish to fiercely point out that they traced their |
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