Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network.

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 being more deeply in touch with our own humanity. This is episode

89. It's the third in the four-part mini-series on the English Reformation that I'm doing this year,

the 500th anniversary of the 95 Theses. This third one is the chaotic 11 years of Edward and Mary's reigns from 1547 to 1558,

when England got religious whiplash.

If you didn't listen to the previous two, go back and do that now, so you're all caught up.

So I have a couple of announcements. First up,

the tour announcement for 2018. I'm so excited you guys. I'm teaming up with Nathan Amin,

founder of the Henry Tudor Society, and we've created a seven-day tour of Tudor Wales next spring.

We'll be visiting some of the most important places in the stories of

the early Tudors. We're going to start off in Windsor, where Owen Tudor met the Dowager, Queen

Catherine of Valois, and fell in love with her, and then we'll move west into Wales, visiting

Carmarthen, Pambrockshire, the island of Anglesey, moving on to Ludlow. And there will be guest

expert speakers at some of the different stops, moving on to Ludlow. And there will be guest expert speakers at some of the

different stops, and there'll be tours, and lots of time to explore as well. So you can see the

complete itinerary and view the costs and what's included. You can go to Englandcast.com

slash tours. I'm so excited about this tour. I'm so excited to share these stories of the early tutors with you. It's something that I've become much more interested in in the past year or so, and it's just going to be so much fun. I hope you can make it. We're capping the tour and only 14 people, so it's going to be very intimate and very cozy, and we're going to have such a great time, and I hope you can make it.

So now I need to thank my patrons.

I have amazing patrons.

Thank you to Kathy, Juergen, Ashley, Kendra, Ann Boulin, also known as Jessica, Elizabeth, Cynthia, Judy, Ian, Lara, Barbara, Shar, Kiva, Amy, Allison, Joanne, Kathy, Christine, Annetta, Mary, Candace, Rebecca, from

TudorsDynasty.com, Al and Shandor. I love you guys. You're awesome. You can find out how to join this

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