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 136, and it's the third in a little mini-series I'm doing

on Tudor London. This one focuses on the gates of the city and the road to Westminster.

But first, a reminder about TudorCon, of course, you can still get the early bird tickets

until the end of the year, actually until

the 7th of January, because we keep the 12 days of Christmas here. You can save $50 off the

regular price with the early bird ticket. So if you're interested in coming and spending three

days learning from authors and historians, including Nathan Amin and more, you also want to hang

out with fellow tutor

enthusiasts and party, form new friendships, and learn together. Go to Englandcast.com

slash TudorCon 2020 to learn more and reserve your tickets. So this episode is about Tudor

London, specifically what 16th century London was like for our Tudor friends.

This is the third episode in this little mini series, this feature on life in 16th century

city. And I'm doing several episodes just on Tudor London and then we're going to move on to

other cities. So last week we talked about the bridge and the rivers and how London actually

has 21 rivers running underneath

her and all the different ways that people navigated them, including the impressive London Bridge.

Today we're going to talk about the city gates and the walk down to Westminster.

Because of course nowadays Westminster and the city are linked together, this one big hodgepodge of a metropolis.

But during the Tudor period, these were two distinct cities. One was the head of commerce and

trade, and the other was the seat of government. You can get full show notes for this episode

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