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 141, and it's all about Thomas Elliott and specifically his book, The Governor, and its impact on court and on 16th century politics.

So you can get show notes for this episode at Englandcast.com slash Elliot.

That's Englandcast.com slash E-L-Y-O-T.

So normally this is the part of the show where I would plug TudorCon or my shop or something

like that.

But we're living in weird times right now, friends.

For a lot of us, there's maybe the want, the desire to escape.

So I would just remind you, two things.

First, you can get an archive of all of my shows at Englandcast.com slash archive. There's, gosh, over 140 episodes now. Of course, you can also get them all

on your pod catcher of choice. But I also want to recommend another

Agora podcast, which is when diplomacy fails, which is a really great show that Zach has put

together. And it's a podcast about times in history when diplomacy has failed. And he's not

particularly interested in looking at what one general

did or another general did or anything like that. He delves into the human agency, the story

populated by sometimes ingenious, sometimes fatally flawed human beings who believed or have

been led to believe that the time was right for war. And so it's a really

fascinating podcast that looks at diplomacy and when it failed. Hence the name. So I would just

remind you if you're looking for a bit of listening escapeism. If you're at home right now and you're quarantined, or maybe you're on lockdown,

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