Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast.

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 world, and getting in touch with our own humanity.

So, I owe all of you kind and gentle people an apology.

The month of May was insanity defined for us here.

Hannah started nursery school, and nobody told me that suddenly as soon as your kid starts

daycare or nursery school, every germ in the world will

attach itself to her hands and just come into your house. We have all been passing around bugs,

and then the plumbing in our house went out because of a leak in a pipe under the driveway,

and then in an event that kind of epitomized what the past month has been like. On Friday, Hannah was

fighting her nap and doing gymnastics on the bed, the way many almost three-year-olds do. And when she came

up from a somersault, with me trying to stop it, her head collided with my eye, and now I have a black

eye and an insane headache. Anyway, you didn't need to hear the entire story of my

parenting, myth adventures, but all that is to say that I have neglected this podcast, and I

apologize. So, onwards. This month, I'm finally going to finish out this third episode on the

theater, which has been long promised,

and then another interview with Tudor Times about their person of the month, and then we will be

moving onwards to rebellions. So let's get started. Just a quick reminder that this podcast

is a proud member of the Agora Podcast Network, and

the Agora podcast of the month, which you should definitely check out, is The History of China

by Chris. Check it out, subscribe, and learn more at the history of China.wordpress.com.

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