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British History: Royals, Rebels, and RomanticsHearing the Secret Voices, with Sarah Gristwood (ep 183)Sarah Gristwood offers us a captivating collection of extracts from women’s diaries, looking back over 400 years to listen to women’s experience with love and family and work and leisure has changed down the years. And how it hasn’t.Show Notes:Carol Ann Lloydwww.carolannlloyd.com@shakeuphistorypatreon.com/carolannlloydThe Tudors by Numbers, published by Pen and SwordSarah Gristwoodsarahgristwood.comTwitter: @sarahgristwood Instagram: @sarah.gristwoodFacebook: sarah.gristwoodSecret Voices: A Year of Women's DiariesOther books: Tudors i...2024-03-0636 minBritish History: Royals, Rebels, and RomanticsHappy Holidays with Tudors in Love Featuring Sarah Gristwood (ep 141)Sarah Gristwood's high acclaimed The Tudors in Love is finally available in the US--just in time for the holidays! Sarah graciously joins us to discuss how the Tudors took courtly love to new highs (and lows).Carol Ann Lloydwww.carolannlloyd.com@shakeuphistorypatreon.com/carolannlloydSarah Gristhoodwww.sarahgristwood.com@sarahgristwoodThe Tudors in Love (now available in the US!)Elizabeth II: The Queen and the CrownGame of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth Century EuropeBlood Sisters: The Women of the Wars of...2022-12-2146 minBritish History: Royals, Rebels, and RomanticsFighting from Inside: Books about Women and the Wars of the Roses (ep 26)The so-called “Wars of the Roses” is one of the most fascinating periods of English history. There is the uber-king, Henry V, vanquishing the enemy in France and inspiring his troops (and Shakespeare!) to a stunning victory at Agincourt. There’s his son, the under-king, Henry VI. Crowed as a child, Henry VI never came anywhere near the ease or effectiveness on the throne his father had. There are the York brothers, Edward, George, and Richard. All sons of Richard Duke of York, the three brothers displayed a level of ambition and ruthlessness that led to of them to the cr...2020-10-2114 min