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 138, and it's all

about the time that Londoners thought about building arcs in 1524. You can get show notes for

this episode at Englandcast.com slash flood. But first, I want to thank my newest patron,

Jennifer. Jennifer, you will be receiving your welcome goodies soon. And in the meantime,

if you'd like to be part of this crew of intelligent and thoughtful people, just go over to

patreon.com slash Englandcast, where you can support this show for as little as a dollar an episode.

Also, two other notes.

There are still TudorCon tickets available, of course.

So as you're starting to think about 2020 and your goals and places you want to go and things

like that, that's something I always do every year is plan out.

These are the trips I want to take and the conferences I want to go to and things like that.

So as you're doing that,

remember to think about TudorCon in October of 2020 in beautiful Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, for three days of Tudor fun and learning from leading speakers and bloggers, et cetera. So you can go to

Englandcast.com slash TudorCon 2020 for all the information about that.

And I still do have some tutor planners available. So if you are feeling left out because you're

seeing people posting pictures of their tutor planners on social media, or you just want to

tutify your 2020, then head on over to to tudorplanar.com and you can see

all there is to see about the 2020 Tutor Planner, which is themed for the field of cloth of gold,

which happened in 1520, so it's the 500th anniversary of that. So today I want to tell you a story

about the end of the world. Or at least a time when

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