
Not Just the Tudors
Hosted by Suzannah Lipscomb · History Hit
4.9from 5,347 ratings
- 549
- Episodes
- 270
- Transcribed
- 5,347
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Not Just the Tudors
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks about everything from the Aztecs to witches, Velázquez to Shakespeare, Mughal India to the Mayflower. Not, in other words, just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors.Each episode Suzannah is joined by historians and experts to reveal incredible stories about one of the most fascinating periods in history, new releases every Wednesday and Sunday.A podcast by History Hit, the world's best history channel and creators of award-winning podcasts Dan Snow's History Hit, The Ancients, and Betwixt the Sheets.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe (https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe). History Hit is part of Little Dot Studios, a Certified B Corp™ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- History Hit
- Category
- history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 Apr 2021
- Latest episode
- 21 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
270 of 549 episodes have a transcript.

21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Royal Favourites: The Filthy Earl of Rochester

17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Rotten End of Henry VIII

14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Henry VIII's Reign of Terror
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Royal Favourites: The Filthy Earl of Rochester
Published 21 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But he also liked seeing the big wide world and realised, I think, that things weren't as small as his home in Oxfordshire and then later going to study in Oxford, that actually there were more things going on and they were there ripe for the taking for someone like him. And I suppose that prepared him for when he came back to join Charles's court. Give us a sense of Rochester. What was it about him that made him such an attractive and successful figure and won Charles's affection? Yeah. He was really funny. I think that's the key thing. He was really witty and he did have that intellect where he could find humour in strange things. […]
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