Host Natalie Grueninger speaks with Emma Rutherford and Dr Elizabeth Goldring about the freshly authenticated Nicholas Hilliard portrait miniature, likely depicting Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. The episode covers stylistic and technical evidence, costume comparisons, family provenance, and the discovery of a defaced playing card on the reverse.

Guests discuss the miniature’s emotional context, its possible ties to Shakespeare and the sonnets, and why this intimate find matters for Tudor art, patronage, and literary history.

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LEARN MORE ABOUT DR ELIZABETH GOLDRING

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/elizabethgoldring/

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Host Natalie Grueninger interviews Dr Erica Canela about her new book, 'Zealous: A Darker Side of the Early Quakers'. They explore how the English Civil Wars and the rise of print culture spawned a radical, disruptive Quaker movement led by George Fox, its beliefs in direct revelation and social equality, and the often violent reactions it provoked.

The episode traces the movement’s early urgency—marketplace preaching, unlawful meetings, arrests—and follows its later transformation into a disciplined, influential community known for pacifism, business integrity, and social reform.

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TUDOR TAKEAWAY

'Thorns, Lust, and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn' by Estelle Paranque

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Join Natalie Grueninger and expert guide Sarah Slater for a tour of Hampton Court Palace: its Tudor history, the spectacular Great Hall stained glass, and the spine-tingling ghost stories tied to Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard, Anne Boleyn and the Grey Lady, Dame Sybil Penn.

They discuss eyewitness accounts, a mysterious CCTV figure, EMF readings in the Haunted Gallery, and the palace’s long social and architectural past—plus book recommendations and ways to learn more.

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BOOKS MENTIONED

'The Palace' by Gareth Russell

'Private Lives of the Tudors' by Tracy Borman

'In the Footsteps of Anne Boleyn' by Natalie Grueninger & Sarah Morris

'A Tudor Christmas' by Alison Weir & Siobhan'

'Hampton Court: A Social and Architectural History' by Simon Thurley

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