Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast.

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 be much more deeply in touch with our own humanity.

This is episode I've lost count.

167, I think.

I think it's 167.

And I'm going to be talking about famous escapes from the Tower of London.

This is a shorter version of the talk that I did at the Intelligence Speech Conference last week.

So if you saw it there, then I'm sorry, this is a duplicate, but most of you did

not see it there. So for those of you who did, thank you so much for coming. And I will put in the show

notes links to some other favorite episodes I've done and other things you can listen to this week

instead of this, since it's a

duplicate for you. So show notes are at Englandcast.com slash tower. Englandcast.com slash

tower for the show notes. Just a couple of quick pieces of admin. First off, Tudor Khan is happening this year in person. I got an email last week

from somebody saying, is TudorCon happening? And I thought, well, I keep saying it on my show,

but I guess not everybody hears that. But I'm going to say it again. So TudorCon is happening

in person, October 1st through 3rd. It's three days of basically a Tudor Nerd Fest.

So there's costumes, there's parties, there are talks.

I wanted to make something that was basically a mix of going to an academic conference where there are lots of talks and learning,

but also a Renaissance fair where it's just fun. So this is kind of a mix between the two.

So there's a party on Friday night with costumes and period music, entertainment,

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