Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network.

I'm your host, Heather Tusco, 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 so much more deeply in touch with our own humanity. This is episode 175, and it's all

about smoking, namely tobacco, which was brand new in Tudor, England, but would go

on to have a storied career in England, especially during the later Stewart restoration period,

when smoking was encouraged for children because it was just so gosh darn healthy.

But first, a really quick note about TudorCon.

So TudorCon is happening this year from October 1st through 3rd in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. As I've said many times before, it's three days of Tudor merriment, learning, friendships, talks, parties, feasts, music. Tickets are officially sold out. But there's a little trick, because we have a few people who are looking to exchange their tickets because they can't come.

They'd like to sell them to others who might like to come, but can't get a ticket.

So if you would like to come to TudorCon, don't despair that tickets are sold out.

You can still come if you let me know. There are four people, I think, who are looking to sell their tickets like

that. So you can go to Englandcast.com slash TudorCon 2021 to get all the details and then email me.

There's a link there to get matched up with someone who wants to sell their

ticket. There's an email there to get on the wait list. And when you click on that and send me an

email, I will match you up with one of the people who is looking to sell their ticket. All right?

Cool. Englandcast.com slash TudorCon at 2021.

October 1st through 3rd, we're like less than two months away.

It's going to be so awesome.

I can't wait.

I want to also tell you about the books of Sarah Kennedy.

So Sarah Kennedy writes a series called The Cross and the Crown, and she is one of the generous sponsors of TudorCon. So I just want to tell you about the first

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