From Succession to Codpieces: Your Tudor Questions Answered

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In this special episode, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb fields questions about the Tudors and their time that have all been suggested by you. From the hundreds of ideas for episodes and queries received from listeners all over the world, Suzannah has chosen a wide array of subjects - from Henry VIII’s illegitimate son to knitting, from atheism to codpieces! Helping her to answer them are Professor Alec Ryrie and Professor Maria Hayward.

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Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. Edited and produced by Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.

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0:00.0	Want to walk the halls of Anne Boleyn's childhood home or explore the castles that made up Henry
0:06.8	the 8th's English stronghold? With a subscription to history hit, you can dive into our Tudor
0:12.1	past alongside the world's leading historians and archaeologists. You also unlock hundreds of
0:18.4	hours of original documentaries with a brand new release
0:21.8	every single week. Covering everything from the ancient world to World War II, just visit
0:28.1	historyhit.com forward slash subscribe.
0:34.9	Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb and welcome welcome to Not Just the Tudors from History Hit,
0:40.7	the podcasts in which we explore everything from Anne Boleyn to the Aztecs,
0:45.2	from Holbein to the Huguenots, from Shakespeare to Samarise,
0:49.8	relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage and witchcraft.
0:54.0	Not in other words, just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors.
1:18.1	Hello! Hello, we've got something a bit different for this episode of Not Just the Tudors,
1:22.6	because the subjects we're going to explore have all been suggested by you.
1:28.5	You'll know that at the end of each episode, I invite you to tell me if there's any subject you'd like me to cover on the podcast. And we've had hundreds of ideas from all over the
1:33.5	world for episodes since not just the tutors started in April 2021. So as we approach our fifth birthday and 500th episode early next year, I can hardly believe it,
1:50.6	I thought we could take this opportunity to answer some of your pressing Tudor questions.
1:56.6	Thanks to all of you for sending in your ideas and queries.
1:59.8	The variety of subjects we're going to cover today is quite wide-ranging.
2:03.3	We'll be thinking about everything from atheism to cod pieces.
2:07.2	Yes, you heard me right.
2:08.4	And I'll be calling up a few wonderful historian friends of the podcast to help me answer your questions. Okay, let's jump in with our first question, which comes from a not just the
2:28.1	Tudor's listener in Australia. Hello, Dr. Susanna. This is Sharon Howes from Brisbane and Australia.
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