The Tudors Dynasty podcast.

Hello and welcome back to the show.

I'm your host, Rebecca Larson, and today I'm very pleased to welcome back to the show, Dr.

Elizabeth Norton.

Welcome back, Elizabeth.

Thank you very much.

It's an absolute pleasure.

Well, today, I'm so excited.

We're recording this in March, but I think by the time it airs, it's going to be in April,

but March is Women's History Month. And I thought of all of the historians that I know,

you are the one who has really covered such a broad range of women in history. So to start off,

I really want to know what is your favorite period of history?

That's tricky.

Yeah, I mean, personally, I think all periods of history are interesting.

I mean, I would probably say the 16th century, because that's where I do the academic side of my work.

But actually, I mean, I've always had a soft spot for the Anglo-Saxons,

actually. In fact, because I did archaeology at university and was doing Anglo-Saxons. My master's

dissertation was on the Anglo-Saxon sculpture of the South Saxon Kingdom. So actually, maybe the

Anglo-Saxons. They're fascinating. They really, okay, so I have to know what is it about them that

fascinates you so much? It's so in, I mean, it's, we're right at the start really, I mean,

of kind of, it's the early medieval period. So the sources are fairly sparse and they're very

kind of poetical. It's all very Tolkienesque, you know, and you have all these names that are quite

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