From Tudor to Stuart: Regime Change
Not Just the Tudors
History Hit
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In 1603, Queen Elizabeth I died and King James VI of Scotland, became King James I of England. Elizabeth was a hard act to follow for the Scottish newcomer who faced a host of problems in his first years as king: not only the legacy of his predecessor but also unrest in Ireland, serious questions about his legitimacy on the English throne, and even plots to remove him.
In this episode of Not Just the Tudors - recorded in front of a live audience at the Gloucester History Festival - Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Professor Susan Doran, about how, contrary to traditional assumptions, James's accession was by no means a smooth one.
This episode was produced by Rob Weinberg.
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| 0:00.0 | From BBC Radio 4, Britain's biggest paranormal podcast is going on a road trip. |
| 0:07.0 | I thought in that moment, oh my God, we've summoned something from this board. |
| 0:15.0 | This is uncanny USA. |
| 0:18.0 | He says somebody's in the house and I screamed. |
| 0:22.0 | A. Listen to Uncanny USA wherever you get your BBC podcasts, if you dare. Historians have long treated 1603 as a watershed. In fact generally speaking the cast of historians who work on the Tudors pre-1603 and those who work on the stewards post 1603 have been entirely different as if |
| 0:56.7 | 1603 were a chasm you shall not pass. |
| 1:01.1 | 1603 of course is the year in which Elizabeth the first died and |
| 1:05.2 | James, James the 6th of Scotland, became James the 1st of England. |
| 1:10.7 | The last Tudor monarch and the first Stuart King of England. The last Tudor monarch and the first Stuart King of England also make for an easy |
| 1:16.2 | contrast. The unmarried childless virgin queen, the married father later mired in sexual scandal the Queen whose motto was |
| 1:25.6 | video Etachio I see and remain silent the king who couldn't stop speechifying |
| 1:32.1 | the stingy Elizabeth the profligate |
| 1:34.8 | James, and we could go on. And yet today on the podcast we have two rare things, |
| 1:41.0 | a historian who has boldly stepped across the gap of 1603 and mastered |
| 1:46.3 | the early Jacobian court as she has already done with the Elizabethan and a careful, |
| 1:52.1 | considered comparison of the two reigns in terms of people, institutions and |
| 1:57.5 | policies which reveals continuities as well as change. I am delighted to welcome my guest, recorded live at Gloucester History |
| 2:07.1 | Festival, the Doyenne of Early Modern England, Susan Doran, Professor of Early Modern British History at the University of Oxford and Senior |
| 2:16.0 | Research Fellow at Jesus College. Her latest monumental work of scholarship, a jolly good |
| 2:22.4 | read, is from Tudor to Stuart the regime change from |
| 2:27.1 | Elizabeth the first to James the first. Now Sue first one I'm going to ask you something personal about this, which is why did you make this change |
| 2:46.0 | from Tudor to Stuart and how did you experience working across the divide to work on James. |
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