Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a member 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 our connection to our own humanity. This is episode

101. It's another joint episode with Melita Thomas of Tudor Times on Anne of Brittany. First, I want to

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isn't your husband, which I am every day. So now let me introduce you to Melita. Melita 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 1970s series

Elizabeth R with Glinda Jackson, also contributes articles to BBC History Extra and Britain

magazine.

So I've just been refreshing

myself on Anne of Brittany. Yeah. I like Anne of Brittany. Well, I would like to know more

about her because I know, I know very, I mean, I know absolutely nothing. So this is, I started

reading a little bit about her for our call. and I realized that I just don't know anything.

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