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

I am your host, Heather Tesco. 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 of course, being more deeply in touch with our own

humanity. So this episode is all about the new forest. One author I just love is Edward Rutherford.

He writes these kind of sweeping epic novels set in different places.

I first read his book, London, the novel, maybe 10 years ago. And then he had another one,

Sarum, about the area around Salisbury. And I kind of need to ration my reading of him because

I just love him so much.

Sort of like Haruki Murakami, like I read him and it's like chocolate and it's like,

I can't have too much because then it goes away.

I mean, there's only so many, right?

So I have to ration my reading of Edward Rutherford.

And I just finished his book on the history of the New Forest.

And I'll add a link in the show notes if you want to check it out. It made me want to dig deeper

into New Forest history, and specifically the history during the Tudor and Elizabethan period.

But before we get started, your regular reminder about TudorCon.

So I'm hosting a happy hour Q&A session about TudorCon next Friday, February 24th at 3 p.m. Eastern time.

So you, U.S. Eastern time, right?

So you can hop on Zoom and ask me any questions you have about TudorCon, no matter how big or how small,

if you have questions about like what's included or who's going to be speaking or what the days are

like or why you should come or anything like that. You can come. I will put the registration or the

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