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

the podcasts 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.

In the summer of 1488, a teenage prince rode towards a battlefield where his father was about to die.

By the end of the day, the Crown of Scotland would sit on his head, one through rebellion, bloodshed,

and an act that would haunt him for the rest of his life.

The new king was James IV, and his reign would become one of the most remarkable and ultimately tragic in British history.

James IV was one of the most effective, charismatic and dynamic of Scotland's kings, and one could argue, of all late medieval monarchs.

He was no distant ruler. He traveled relentlessly across his kingdom,

dispensing justice in person,

asserting authority where it was weakest,

and learning the craft of kingship

through experience rather than decree.

At the same time, he cultivated the image

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