Hello everybody, welcome to Downsnow's History. I've got a wonderful bit of news for you all today.

This is super exciting. Professor Susanna Lipskin, one of the most talented historians working anywhere in the world,

is joining Team History with her own podcast. It's called Not Just The Tudors.

Because it's about the 16th century, but it's not just about the Tudors. There's a lot of Tudors in there. Don't get me wrong.

I mean, she's a Tudor specialist. Hillary Mantell, when writing her acknowledgements for her gigantic, amazing books about Thomas Cornwell,

thanks Susie Lipskin. She cites Susie Lipskin's work for giving her the kind of context,

that bedrock that she needed on which to build these wonderful characters that she wrote about.

So Susie knows how Tudors, but she's going elsewhere. She's going to North Italy. She's going to Mexico.

She's going to talk about Montezuma. She's going to talk about the Tukugawa. She's going to talk about it all.

So it's an extraordinary period of history. The end of the Renaissance, the beginning of the modern world in so many ways.

So I ask Susie in this episode, about the 16th century, why we're also fascinated by it? The Tudors ask us some big old questions.

Who was a better king? Henry the Zebeth or Henry the Eighth?

And I ask her that terrible question. Was Elizabeth Tudors, Elizabeth the first overrated as a monarch? The answer she gives may surprise you.

If you want to go and subscribe to Susie's wonderful new podcast, I urge you to do that. Wherever you get your pods, type in not just the Tudors.

And it will appear before you, you click subscribe, you click all that. Have a little lesson and give it a rating.

And we're hoping it's just the beginning of Susie joining Team History. We'd love to get a do some work on the TV channel as well,

which you can go and check out history.tv, documentaries by many of your favorite historians,

and many of you have never heard of, but a truly wonderful head over to history.tv. We got ancient history. We got Renaissance history.

We got modern history. Got it all on there. You're going to love it.

But in the meantime, please have a listen as I welcome Susie Lipscomb to the history at Fold.

Professor Susanna Lipscomb, great to have you on this podcast.

I'd love to see you down, as ever. I mean, if I only been on the podcast about a thousand times, so eventually we thought,

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