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 much more deeply in touch with our own humanity.

This is episode 112.

And this week I'm going to talk actually a little bit on either side of the tutor period

because it's a subject I'm really interested in.

And we're talking about

the Tower Menagerie. The Tower what, huh? Yes, for over 600 years, there was a menagerie or

zoo at the Tower of London. And today I'm going to talk about that zoo and we'll talk a little

bit about it in the Tudor period, which was when a couple of big changes happened

in the Zuse history, but I'm going to talk about the whole period before and after. So one

quick note that Christmas is coming up, and I want to remind you about Tudoraffair.com, which is

my online shop of, I call it lovingly Tudor Swag, right?

So you can get things like sneakers with the Ambulin B necklace, kind of iconic symbol on it.

You can get an umbrella with Elizabeth the first signature on it.

There's really super cool stuff there.

So TudorFair.com, there's T-shirts, boots, purses, bags, mugs, all kinds of stuff.

So check that out, TudorFair.com. And you can also get the treasures from Best subscription

box there. I launched it about eight or nine months ago. It's a monthly subscription

box filled with Tudor treats like books, jewelry, special spa-like things, all inspired by Tudor

history. So it's $39.99 a month. That includes free shipping in the continental U.S.

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