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Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb and welcome welcome to Not Just the Tudors from History Hit,

the podcasts in which we explore everything from Anne Boleyn to the Aztecs,

from Holbein to the Huguenots, from Shakespeare to Samarise,

relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage and witchcraft.

Not in other words, just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors.

Sometimes history's most familiar figures turn out to be strangers in disguise.

In this episode, we venture into the turbulent world of 17th century England with Dr. Erica

Canella and the historian whose recent work peels back the serene image of the early Quakers

to reveal something far more complex and, at times, unsettling.

This isn't the story of quiet contemplation and in

a peace we might expect. Instead, Dr. Canala traces how war, trauma and social upheaval

birthed a movement that was both spiritual and subversive. Through vivid figures like George

Fox, Richard Farmworth and Humphrey Smith,

she shows us Quakers as charismatic agitators, their message forged in the chaos of civil war

and sharpened by persecution. We're here how these radical believers use the power of the printed

word as both sword and shield,

challenging church and state, confronting magistrates, and redefining what it meant to live by

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