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Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

Episode 137: Tudor London - the Northern Suburbs

Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

Heather Teysko

History

4.6624 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we continue our journey around Tudor London, this time venturing out of the city proper to the suburbs around the east and north - Hackney, Islington, Hampstead and Highgate with a walk on the Heath to boot! Is the Queen of the Icini who led a rebellion against the Romans buried on Hampstead Heath? You'll have to listen to find out :) Remember to grab your Tudorcon tickets before January 7 at englandcast.com/tudorcon2020 for the best price. Also, if you like this show, the best way you can support it is to leave a positive rating where you're listening. It makes a huge difference in helping others discover the show. Thank you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey Kitty, time to eat your profits. Good kitty, look how fat you've gotten. That's the sound of some

0:07.8

workplace pension providers paying their shareholders instead of you. At people's pension,

0:12.8

we don't have shareholders to pamper. That's why over the last five years, we've given

0:17.4

£100 million back to our members instead.

0:23.0

Oh, you've broken the cat flap again.

0:25.9

People's pension. Now that's a pension with purpose.

0:29.7

Visit people'spension.com.uk forward slash pays you. You. Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network.

0:46.8

I'm your host Heather Tesco, and I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because

0:51.0

I believe it's a pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the universe,

0:55.1

and being more deeply in touch with our own humanity. This is episode 137, and it's the third,

1:01.2

fourth actually, in a little mini-series on Tudor London. This one focuses on the suburbs to the

1:06.3

north of the city. You can get show notes for this episode at Englandcast.com slash northern suburbs.

1:12.7

I'm getting very specific here, right? It's not just suburbs. It's northern suburbs. But there's so

1:17.4

much to talk about. I tried doing a whole episode just on all of the suburbs. And, you know,

1:22.0

Hampstead and Highgate and Hackney and Islington are worth a whole episode on their own. So here we are.

1:28.7

But first, I just want to remind you about TudorCon. You can still get early bird tickets until January the 7th and saves

1:34.8

you $50 off the price. So if you want to come, spend three days learning from authors and historians

1:40.5

like Nathan Amin and Brigitte Webster, who runs the Tudor in 17th century experience in

1:45.9

London, well, England, it's not London, and other amazing historians, author, speakers, and you

1:52.6

want to hang out with fellow tutor enthusiasts and party like it's 1509? Actually, I should say party like

1:58.5

it's 1520. We should do like a field of cloth of gold theme since it's the 500th anniversary. That would be fun. We form new friendships, learn together. Go to Englandcast.com slash TudorCon 2020 to learn more. Englandcast.com slash TudorCon 2020. So this is another episode about Tudor London, specifically what 16th century London was like for our tutor friends.

2:21.4

Like I said, this is the fourth episode in what is a mini series feature on life in 16th century London.

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