Episode 216: 24 Hours in Tudor Cambridge

Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

Heather Teysko

History

4.6 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Dive into the heart of Tudor England with the latest episode, 'Uncovering a Day in Tudor Cambridge: Hidden Secrets of 16th Century Life Revealed!' Join me on an immersive journey through a typical day in 16th-century Cambridge, a time of profound change and intrigue. From the early morning rituals of a humble servant to the hushed discussions of scholars under the cloak of night, every hour unveils a new facet of life during one of history's most fascinating eras. Transcript here: https://www.englandcast.com/2024/11/episode-217-24-hours-in-tudor-cambridge/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, hey, friends, welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast.
0:16.6	I am your host, Heather Tesco.
0:18.7	I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because I believe
0:21.5	at the pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the universe, and being more deeply in touch
0:27.3	with our own humanity. This is episode, I think 217. I'm going to have to look it up. But in this
0:34.5	episode, we are going to spend 24 hours in Cambridge. I love doing these like 24 hours in
0:41.8	episodes. I did one on London. I think I did another one. I forget last year. Anyway, I just love
0:48.4	them. I love taking like a slice of life for, I don't know, just kind of going through a whole day
0:54.0	in a particular place
0:55.1	and talking about what was happening in that place. It's a lot of fun for me to do these.
0:59.9	So today we're talking about Cambridge, which happens to be one of my favorite places in
1:04.9	England. I actually wrote a book centered in Cambridge, set in Cambridge. And I spent a lot of time in Cambridge. It's one of my
1:14.8	one of my favorite places. I used to go and sit on the bank of the river outside the Wren
1:22.4	library as the boats were punting back and forth. I would sit there's a weeping willow tree and I would sit underneath it and I would watch the boats were punting back and forth, I would sit, there's a weeping willow tree,
1:27.9	and I would sit underneath it, and I would watch the boats, and I would write. It was
1:34.3	background 2000. I had one of those MacBook clamshell Macs. I had it for work, but I thought I was
1:43.0	ever so cool writing with this thing. I just, I felt like I, I, uh, but I thought I was ever so cool writing with this thing.
1:46.1	I felt like I was just the coolest thing in the world sitting underneath this willow tree writing with my clamshell.
1:55.8	It was a turquoise blue one.
1:58.1	So if you are too young to remember those things, they were really awesome.
2:02.5	They were like the coolest, and it was a mark of just how cool you were if you had a colorful
2:09.5	clamshell Mac MacBook. They also weighed about 12 pounds. They were so heavy. But anyway, that's my story on Cambridge.
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