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The Open University. The future is open. Hello, friend, and welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast, a part of the

Agora podcast network, and the original Tudor history podcast telling stories of

Tudor England since 2009. I am your host, Heather Tesco. I'm a storyteller who makes history

accessible because I believe it's a path to understanding who we are, our role in the universe,

and being more deeply in touch with our own humanity. So today we are going to talk about

diaries and journals. This is a random thing that came up for me. I was going down some kind of a

rabbit hole and I found an article on a diary by an Edward Underhill. And I had never heard of this Edward

Underhill. And he was a gentleman usher. He served four Tudor monarchs. And he kept a journal.

And I had had no idea about this. It was just something I just discovered. And so I decided to dig in because

Edward the 6th, of course, also has a very famous journal. And, you know, when I think about journal

keeping, I think mostly more in like the 17th century with Samuel Pepys, for example. But of course,

like we talk about on this podcast all the time

with the Protestant Reformation, fueling this increase in literacy, because people wanted to be able

to read the Bible in their own language, a part of that then led to diaries and journals. Of course it would.

So we really start to see this kind of increase in keeping journals

and diaries in the 16th century. So we are going to talk about the diary of Edward the 6th, of this

Edward Underhill, and journal keeping in general. Do you keep a journal? I have kept a journal since I got a hello

kitty diary for my sixth birthday. A girl called Kate gave it to me. I don't remember her last name,

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