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Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb and welcome to Not Just the Tudors from History Hit,

the podcast in which we explore everything from Anne Boleyn to the Aztecs, from Holbein to

the Huguenots, from Shakespeare to Samarise, relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage and witchcraft.

Not in other words, just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors.

It began in the autumn of 1536, a season of unrest when the quiet fields of northern England stirred with the sound of thousands of marching feet.

Beneath banners stitched with the five wounds of Christ, they came from towns and villages, from abbeys and farms, carrying not the flags of rebellion, but of faith. They called

themselves pilgrims, not traitors, and their cause, they believed, was sacred. The pilgrimage

of grace was unlike anything England had seen before. Tens of thousands united in defiance

and devotion, proclaiming loyalty to their king even as they rose against

his ministers. They marched to restore what had been lost, their monasteries, their faith,

and the familiar order of a world that Henry VIII's Reformation was tearing apart.

But loyalty and treason in Tudor England were perilously close companions.

What began as a pilgrimage for God and the Commonwealth ended in betrayal, vengeance and bloodshed.

Today, we'll trace that extraordinary story, from the first sparks of protest in Lincolnshire

to the mass uprising led by Robert Ask, and finally to the grim reprisals that followed.

We'll explore what drove ordinary people to take up this cause

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