Hello everybody, welcome to Dance Know's History. It gives me great pleasure, great pleasure to be talking today to a national treasure Alex Hildred about the Mary Rose, one of the great ships of Henry VIII's Navy.

You know that factoid that the Mary Rose Suncolet is made in voyage? Not true folks, not true.

She served for 33 years before, unfortunately, on the 19th of July 1545, capsizing in the Solent, fighting the French off the Isle of White.

She served all those years and I always assume that people get her mixed up with the Vasa, that other wonderful early modern warship that capsized.

Vasa did literally sink meters away from the dark when she was launched, completely ridiculous, poor shipbuilding, poor seamanship, all the rest of it.

Anyway, Mary Rose was in the middle of battle, her gun ports were swamped with water and she went down.

Recently, it made headlines around the world. DNA studies came out talking about the composition of the bodies that Rae recovered from Mary Rose.

With the fascinating new insights that some of these people may have been born, far from British shores, imagine that.

It gives me enormous pleasure to welcome Alex back on the podcast. She's been on before. I've visited the Mary Rose.

She is the head of research and curator of ordinance and human remains at the Mary Rose Trust.

She, as you'll hear, dived on the wreck years ago. She's been involved with Mary Rose ever since.

She has been a leading light in that project. They're not only pushed to boundaries of what was possible in marine archaeology, but since Mary Rose has been raised, has set new standards for conservation and research.

She's a world beta and it's great to have her on the podcast.

We're talking about the new science, but also we're talking about Mary Rose itself.

What it was like excavating her and why she sank and what happened to most of the 415 man crew who were killed that day in 1545.

It's always a good day when I get to talk about Mary Rose.

If you like the solan and let's be honest, who doesn't? It's where it all happens.

Titanic set out and it's made and voiced from the solan.

D-Day saw the basis of the solan. The anchorages being used to send out vast armada or costs to Normandy, just 70-80 miles away.

And speaking of which, that's our newest chart-topping program.

It's the secrets of the solan are D-Day special in which we work with historian Stephen Fisher.

You may have heard him on this podcast to uncover new wrecks, new archaeology associated with D-Day.

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