Two London Historians Show Me the Tudor City Everyone Walks Right Past
Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the TudorsShow Notes
I got on a Zoom call with two Blue Badge guides from Context Travel, and by the end of it I had a list of about a dozen places in London I've never been and now desperately need to see.
Sean spent almost 30 years in financial services before deciding life was too short not to spend it obsessing over history and art instead.
Caroline taught history at a girls' school and specialized in Edward VI, the Tudor everyone skips past on the way from the six wives to Elizabeth I.
We talked about the pieces of Tudor London hiding in plain sight: a tennis court wall tucked behind Buckingham Palace, a portrait of Edward VI you can only see properly through a spy hole, a single rose that's been paid as rent since 1381, and why Henry VIII's waistband tells you basically his entire biography.
I've been doing this for over 15 years and I did not know most of this going in. Keep a notebook handy, you're going to end up with a list.
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