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John Blanke

Episode 2 of 10

This series tells the stories of ten people that reveal a story of the Tudor period as a time of multicultural exchange and encounter.

Jerry Brotton listens for the voices and tells the stories of the ‘other Tudors’: ten men and women from across the world that lived, worked, worshipped and died in Tudor England.

The popular fascination with the Tudors tends to concentrate on the lives of white, elite, English-born men (and the occasional woman). But Tudor England also saw Muslims, Jews, Africans and Native Americans come and go from the Russia, Persia, Morocco, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Americas, making their homes and careers here, and in the process transforming the nature of early English culture and society. This series tells the stories of ten individuals that reveal a very different story of the Tudor period as a time of multicultural exchange, encounter and ordinary working people living alongside each other.

2. John Blanke

Presenter Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London

Producer Mark Rickards

A Whistledown Scotland production

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14 minutes

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Tue 25 Apr 2023 22:45

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  • Tue 25 Apr 2023 22:45

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