Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast.

I'm your host, Heather Tuscoe, 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 our connection to our own humanity.

This is episode 73.

It's another joint episode with Melita Thomas of Tudor Times on Elizabeth of York.

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stuff going on there like next week's free mini e-course called inspiration from kick-ass tutor women.

So go to englandcast.com to check it all out. Also, I'm coming up on 75 episodes. So I'm going to

have a party on April the 7th, and it's going to be on

Facebook live. And so go to Englandcast.com again to check that out. I'll be taking live questions

or your questions that you send me in advance. So it's going to be super fun. And Hannah's going to be

making an appearance there too. So we're both excited. So now let me

introduce you to Melita. Melita Thomas is a co-founder and editor of Tudor Times, a website devoted to

Tudor and Stuart History in the period from 1485 to 1625. You can find it at tudorTimes.co.uk.

Melita, who has always been fascinated by history ever since

she saw the 1970 series Elizabeth R with Glenda Jackson, also contributes articles to BBC History

Extra and Britain Magazine. So, Melita, what is it that makes Elizabeth of York special and tell us

a little bit about who she was. I still don't think that anybody

has found that she was enormously proactive or powerful individual politically, but she's certainly

an interesting woman. She was right at the heart of the Wars of the Roses and her influence over her husband and

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