Hey, it's Heather, and I want to remind you about our very special tours to the UK.

In 2017, we'll be doing tours focusing on the Even Song experience.

The Even Song service comes from Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer from the mid-16th century.

It's been dubbed the Atheist's Favorite Service because it requires so little and it gives so much. It's simply

divine choral music sung in some of the most historic chapels, abbeys and cathedrals in England.

We'll be spending 10 days visiting places like Cambridge, Oxford, Bath, the Cotswolds,

Winchester and Windsor with walking tours, free time to explore,

and then gathering back each afternoon for the Evensong Service if you choose to attend.

It will be 10 days of beautiful countryside, historic cities and villages, and so, so much music. I invite you to go to Englandcast.com

slash tours for full itinerary and pricing information. Again, Englandcast, E-N-G-L-A-N-D, C-A-S-D, Englandcast.com

slash tours. Thanks so much. And now to the show.

Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast, first ever minicast.

I'm your host, Heather Tesco, and I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because I believe it's a pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the universe, and to being

fully in touch with our own humanity. So I'm trying something new this week, which is a minicast.

My next regular episode, like I said, is going to be on the economy of the

wheeled in Kent and Sussex in the iron industry that fed Henry the 8th Navy, like I talked about

last week. But I thought I'd mix things up a little bit. So I'm experimenting with the format of

this show and trying to get on a pattern of doing a regular episode every other week,

and I thought I would throw in these little smaller minicasts in between.

So I'd love to know what you think about it.

Is this something you like?

Let me know.

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