Hey friend. 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, what, 2009?

I just done a brain fart there.

Hi, I am here host, Heather, 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

much more deeply in touch with our own humanity.

Today we are talking about, well, today we are doing another one of those fun year in the life episodes.

I really enjoy doing these because there is a fabulous resource that the Folger Shakespeare Library puts out

Folgerpedia where they go through, it's just an Elizabeth's reign, unfortunately, but I mean

that's what they have, so I'm not going to knock it. But it goes through day by day for various,

for like every year, I think. I think if you Google like Folgerpedia, Elizabeth's

rain day by day, you get this. And so you can download the notes and, you know, all the different

correspondence, everything that was going on day by day. It's an amazing, amazing resource. And so I really

enjoy kind of going through and looking at a year in the life.

Ever since, gosh, about 15 years ago, I read the Bill Bryson book. I love Bill Bryson. And actually,

I have to say personal share, he responded to a letter that I wrote to him, a piece of fan mail,

gosh, back in 2000, I think,

because I had read his notes from a big country, or I think in the U.S., it's called I'm a

stranger here myself. It's when he moved back to the U.K. or when he was living in the U.S.

and, like, the different cultural things things he saw. Anyway, I'm really

digressing here. He has a book called, I think it's 1927, where he just looks at one year in

American history and everything that was going on in that year. And ever since I read that book,

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