Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, part of the Agora Podcasts

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 152, and we're going back to the tour of the Tudor home that we started with the kitchen back in the summer.

So we've also talked about the living room.

And today we're moving on to the bedroom and looking at how bedrooms were used, the way the tutors slept,

and the changes that were taking place during the 16th century.

But before we do all of that, I want to

remind you about TudorCon. It's in just about two weeks. It's all online. So you can come from

wherever in the world you are, Australia or India or Iceland, wherever you're from, or anywhere in America, obviously, it's all online. So it's three days, Friday evening, Saturday, and Sunday with talks from leading tutor historians and authors. There's a tutor cook-along, there's period entertainment, and more.

It's basically a weekend tutor extravaganza, and I'm doing my best to bring the learning,

fun, and community of TudorCon live into the virtual world.

The cost for the entire weekend is just $29.

So you can see the speakers, learn more, and reserve your spot at Englandcast.com slash

TudorCon 2020.

And I will hope to see you online on October 2nd.

So now the Tudor bedroom.

I think that most of us have probably heard the story about Shakespeare leaving his

second best bed to his wife in his will, and the speculation that that has led to throughout

the years as to their matrimonial bliss or not.

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