Episode 185: The Markets of Medieval and Tudor London
Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors
Heather Teysko
4.6 • 624 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
When you lived in a city, getting food could be a challenge. Hence, the growth of markets. Here we look at some of London's Tudor markets - Leadenhall, Billingsgate, and Smithfield.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora podcast network. |
| 0:15.6 | I am your host, Heather Tesco. I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because I believe it's a pathway to |
| 0:21.6 | understanding who we are, our place in the universe, and be more deeply in touch with our |
| 0:27.1 | own humanity. This is episode, I think it's 187, 88, I, who knows, but it's about something I really |
| 0:36.0 | love, which is shopping. |
| 0:42.0 | I've already done an episode on Thomas Gresham and England's First Mall. |
| 0:46.7 | I will link to that in the show notes at Englandcast.com slash markets. |
| 0:52.8 | That gives a clue as to what this episode is about, the URL, Markets. |
| 0:59.9 | So, this episode is on Markets in Tudor London. Before we get started, though, your regular reminder, TudorCon is coming up September 8th through 10th. Yeah, |
| 1:08.3 | September 8 through 10th, 2023. I have updated the page, finally, at Englandcast.com |
| 1:14.9 | slash tutorcon to include all the speakers that we have so far and also, you know, better FAQs, more |
| 1:21.6 | information. So head over there, Englandcast.com slash tutor con to find out all the details and start to make your plans for coming |
| 1:32.1 | to beautiful Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and communing with your fellow tutor history nerds, |
| 1:39.3 | September 8th through 10th, 2023. So I actually thought about doing this episode because I was thinking back to a time |
| 1:47.1 | that my dear friend Paul took me to Lennelham Market when I lived in London. He worked at the Lloyd's |
| 1:52.5 | building and I met him for lunch and he proceeded to give me a long history lesson on the market. |
| 1:58.5 | This was like 20 years ago, but for some reason I thought about it the other |
| 2:01.7 | day and I thought to myself, self, you really ought to do an episode on the markets of London |
| 2:07.2 | during the 16th century. So here we are. During the 16th century, the number of markets in England |
| 2:14.6 | grew significantly. And in London, too, the country's economy expanded and |
| 2:19.6 | commerce became more widespread. The markets were large, were open air, and you would buy a variety |
| 2:27.3 | of goods there, food, clothing, household items. Of course, there were no grocery stores, |
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