This week I had a very special guest on the show – the very talented and wonderful, historian and professor…..Suzannah Lipscomb!
Read more Professor Suzannah Lipscomb on Tudor Life and Henry VIII
On the 16th of July 1546, the Protestant martyr, Anne Askew was burned at the stake for her beliefs. Anne had been unfairly racked “till her bones and joints were almost plucked asunder, in such sort as she was carried away in a chair”. She had been imprisoned in the Tower by Thomas Wriothesley and…
The Tower of London could be called the most haunted place in London as it has seen hundred of executions. Some justified, some not. Many of the prisoners who entered the Tower only left to go to their execution. Most executions were public events and were well attended. Seems a little morbid now. Traitors could…
Read more The Tower of London – the Most Haunted Castle in England
