Hello, I'm Professor Suzanne Ellipscombe, and welcome to not just the Tudors from History Hit,

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

from Holbein to the Huguenoes, from Shakespeare to Summarise.

Relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage, and witchcraft.

Not in other words, just the Tud tutors but most definitely also the tutors. As many of you are about to set off on travels or holidays to get away from it all,

I thought it might be a nice opportunity to revisit some of the fascinating episodes of not just the Tudors,

where we've set sail with travellers in the early modern period. These journeys not only open their eyes to

sights and wonders they've never seen before, but sometimes led to

expanding human knowledge of places that were previously unknown to all but their indigenous inhabitants.

We made this episode first released in September 2022

to mark the 500th anniversary of a small band of sailors

completing the first ever circumnavigation of the globe led by

fernal de maiyesh anglicized as Ferdinand Miguelin or Magellum if you're in the States.

Having set out with an armada of five ships

and some 270 men, only one ship and 18 men returned. This was an extraordinary voyage. Setting sail from Spain,

Magellan and his crew had no idea of the extent of the Pacific Ocean.

Their maps were outdated and McGellen

underestimated the route by at least half. There were risks of storms, starvation and

drought, sickness and mutiny, and there were genuine fears of mermaids who could enchant sailors

submerged magnets that could pull nails from ships causing them to sink

and sea monsters. Despite these extraordinary challenges,

the voyage forever altered the world's ideas about cosmology and geography and much else besides. Here to talk to us about this

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