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    This is History: The Tudors

    Historian Dan Jones returns with This Is History: The Tudors. Season one gives you the extraordinary origin story of England’s most iconic royal family.

    This is the ultimate story of kings and queens, seduction and spectacle, where power is seized in private chambers, performed in public and, too often, lost on an executioner’s block. In just over a century, the Tudors alter the fabric of the state and Church. Theirs is the era of the Reformation, of Shakespeare, and of voyages to the New World. 

    Their story starts on 22 August 1485. At the bloody Battle of Bosworth Field, Henry Tudor defeated King Richard III, ending more than three centuries of Plantagenet rule and claiming the English throne as Henry VII.

    As the embers of the Wars of the Roses finally cool, Henry VII discovers that winning a crown is far easier than keeping one. 

    Too soon, die-hard Richardians team up with a vengeful English princess and plot to replace Henry with pretenders. One is a ten-year-old boy, another, a Flemish teenager who reinvents themselves as long-lost princes. England is once more plunged into chaos. 

    It’s a far cry from the story Henry VII hoped to tell.

    To dive deeper into Tudor lore, subscribe to bonus episodes on Apple podcasts or become a Royal Favourite in Dan’s royal court on patreon/thisishistory.

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    Hey Dan here. Here’s a podcast from none other than TIH alumna, producer Georgia Mills!

    If you can’t get enough of historical failure after History’s Greatest Fails, give Cautionary Tales a listen. My royal favourites get one month free of a free subscription — look out for the gift link on our Patreon Court Gossip thread.

    In the meantime, here’s a sample episode. It’s the tale of a poet who thought his poem about the Battle of Crecy was going to rival Shakespeare… evidently, it did not.

    William McGonagall's poems are something else. The jarring meter, the banal imagery, the awkward rhymes: they made him a laughing stock in 19th Century Scotland and are still derided to this day. How does someone get that bad at poetry? Or have we been misunderstanding McGonagall all along?


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    S10 E3 | LOVEBOMBING Jun 09, 2026
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    Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick, knows there’s no such thing as a free lunch. And the best way to keep the people on your side is through their stomachs.

    It’s a lesson King Edward IV has yet to learn. After marrying for love, and starting a diplomatic thaw with Europe, Edward soon finds out that there’s really only one task that matters: keeping his most powerful subject loyal.

    So the young king allows a raid on a Hanseatic League storehouse on Warwick’s behalf, he moves his entire court to Coventry just to coax Warwick to a council meeting, and then stages a grand ceremony at Windsor Castle to project unity. None of it works. Warwick takes every gift and offers nothing in return.

    Generosity can be its own kind of trap door. The question is whether the king will recognise it before he’s swallowed whole…

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    As always, Dan’s royal favourites can chime in anytime on the royal court on Patreon at patreon.com/thisishistory. And don’t forget to listen to this season’s accompanying bonus episodes for this miniseries, where Dan and Producer Al trace how the Earl of Warwick was able to attain power that rivalled that of the king’s. Plus, Dan gets stuck into how the restive Northern counties provides Warwick with a vulnerability to exploit.

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    Presented by Dan Jones

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    Executive Producer - Louisa Field

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    S10 E2 | Rise of the Woodvilles Jun 02, 2026
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    Edward IV marries in secret, then springs the news like a trap.

    England’s new Queen, Elizabeth Woodville, arrives with two sons, a Lancastrian past, and a family ready to take their chance. When the newly-married couple introduces themselves at Reading Abbey, nobles gape. But Elizabeth takes her newfound royal status with aplomb. She stages a dazzling churching, forcing courtiers to kneel for hours.

    Elsewhere, England’s pitiable former king Henry VI is found wandering and locked quietly in the Tower. Elizabeth’s siblings are married into great royal houses at speed, tightening their grip, much to the dismay of England’s noble class.

    In London, her brother Anthony fights the Grand Bastard of Burgundy before a roaring crowd. All the while, a wounded Earl of Warwick watches on. The kingmaker’s been left humiliated and restless by this union, and the balance of power in between Warwick and Edward won’t stay cordial for long.

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    As always, Dan’s royal favourites can chime in anytime on the royal court on Patreon at patreon.com/thisishistory. And don’t forget to listen to this season’s accompanying bonus episodes for this miniseries, where Dan and Producer Al discuss the basics of marriage in the medieval world… and how they bend and warp when the groom is a king. Plus, get the inside scoop on 1464’s HOTTEST scandal: Edward IV’s secret wedding to Elizabeth Woodville — the low-born widow who nobody saw being England’s next Queen.

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    Executive Producer - Louisa Field

    Executive Producer - Dan Jones

    Production Manager - Jen Mistri

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    S10 E1 | A New Hope May 26, 2026
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    A 13-year-old girl labours in a sealed chamber at Pembroke Castle as the plague circles them. Miraculously, Margaret Beaufort survives. Her son does, too. His name is Henry Tudor.


    This birth doesn’t register in the minds of many nobles, as they’re focused on England’s first Yorkist King, Edward IV. After his decisive victory at the Battle of Towton, his mission as king is to do what Henry VI couldn’t: rebuild a broken kingdom.


    He solidifies power in concert with his ally, the Earl of Warwick, who fancies himself as a kingmaker. Warwick grows rich on titles, ports, and power, until some say he rules as much as the king. They stamp out a few threats to Edward’s rule, but ultimately their mission is to stamp order over the kingdom.


    The best way to do that is to find England a new Queen.


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    As always, Dan’s royal favourites can chime in anytime on the royal court on Patreon at patreon.com/thisishistory. And don’t forget to listen to this season’s accompanying bonus episodes for this miniseries, where Dan and Producer Al discuss the Earl of Warwick’s lust for power, and why the role of matchmaker has been thrust upon him. Plus, Dan gives you a close insight into the social discord of England early on in Edward IV’s reign thanks to the Paston Letters — the largest surviving collection of 15th-century private correspondence, written in English between 1422 and 1509.


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    Executive Producer - Louisa Field

    Executive Producer - Dan Jones

    Production Manager - Jen Mistri

    Production Coordinator - Eric Ryan

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    Introducing… Season Ten of a Dynasty to Die For May 19, 2026
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    Three brothers. One crown. And no ounce of loyalty between them.


    In the final Plantagenet season of A Dynasty to Die For, Dan Jones traces the spectacular implosion of a dynasty that defined medieval England.


    You will meet King Edward IV, who marries for love and splits his court in half. His former champion, the Earl of Warwick, becomes a mortal enemy. Edward’s heirs mysteriously vanish in the Tower of London… just before their uncle becomes England’s last Plantagenet monarch — Richard III.


    As the Plantagenet dynasty crumbles,, across the sea, a boy nobody wanted is about to upend English history forever. His name is Henry Tudor.


    It took centuries to forge this dynasty. It will take one battle to bury them.


    Listen to the debut episode of Season 10 of This Is History — A Dynasty to Die For, premiering on Tuesday May 26. Subscribers can listen to episode two straight away on the same day — become one of Dan’s Royal Favourites to get early ad-free access: patreon.com/thisishistory.


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    War — History’s Ultimate Failure May 12, 2026
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    Elizabeth Day grew up in Belfast and would as a child walk past the most bombed hotel in Europe. Dan Jones recalls a Croatian widow whose husband went out for bread and never returned.


    In this final episode of History’s Greatest Fails, Dan and Elizabeth name war as history's ultimate failure and reflect on the changes that follow societal collapse.


    Together, they draw on conflicts that have changed the course of world history, such as the Hundred Years' War, the World Wars, the Troubles, and the breakup of Yugoslavia.


    Plus, Elizabeth delves into a special area of interest: How societies choose to remember war and how that has influenced the evolution of art, literature, and architecture.


    So what can we learn from history’s ultimate failure?


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    As always, Dan’s royal favourites can chime in anytime on the royal court on Patreon at patreon.com/thisishistory. And don’t forget to listen to this season’s accompanying bonus episodes for this miniseries, where Dan and Producer Al are dissecting the biggest historical failures as submitted by the royal favourites. In this episode, they attempt to answer why invading Russia is never a good idea, and the futility of France’s Maginot line amid the 20th-Century’s rapid technological change.


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    Researcher - Phoebe Joyce

    Executive Producer - Louisa Field

    Executive Producer - Dan Jones

    Executive Producer for Daylight Productions - Elizabeth Day

    Production Manager - Jen Mistri

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    Ear Today, Gone Tomorrow: Van Gogh’s Guide to Artistic Failure May 05, 2026
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    If you’re an artist, when would you like recognition to strike? Do you want it to be in your lifetime, only to be forgotten decades after your death? Or do you want to remain undiscovered, with your story potentially echoing for centuries after you’ve been discovered posthumously?


    These are some of the thorny questions Dan and Elizabeth consider in this episode about artistic failure. Together, they trace the stories of artists whose lives don’t neatly match up with the reputations their works have gathered: French writer George Sand, and the painters Vincent Van Gogh, and Artemisia Gentileschi.


    Each artist presents a differing experience of the kaleidoscope that is artistic failure: Van Gogh and Gentileschi suffered great personal anguish yet have given the world canonical paintings, while Sand was one of the most popular novelists of the 19th century – only to be cast out of the canon in the next century.


    So what would you rather: Acclaim now, or acclaim posthumously?


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    As always, Dan’s royal favourites can chime in anytime on the royal court on Patreon at patreon.com/thisishistory. And don’t forget to listen to this season’s accompanying bonus episodes for this miniseries, where Dan and Producer Al are dissecting the biggest historical failures as submitted by the royal favourites. In this episode, they discuss a potential research fail about Battle of Hastings, what happens when failure is lost in translation, and what American Reconstruction can teach us about historical failure.


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    Presented by Dan Jones and Elizabeth Day

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    Senior Producer - Dominic Tyerman

    Researcher - Phoebe Joyce

    Executive Producer - Louisa Field

    Executive Producer - Dan Jones

    Executive Producer for Daylight Productions - Elizabeth Day

    Production Manager - Jen Mistri

    Production Coordinator - Eric Ryan

    Head of content - Chris Skinner


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    Why isn’t Leonardo Da Vinci remembered as an engineer? Apr 28, 2026
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    If you judge him by his own elaborate metrics, Leonardo da Vinci was a failure.


    Long before the Mona Lisa became shorthand for genius, Leonardo imagined himself as something else entirely: a military engineer, a designer of bridges and armoured vehicles, a master of siegecraft and architecture.


    In 1482, he wrote a breathless letter to Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, itemising these talents with bravado and noting, quickly, that oh, he could paint, too. Many of his boldest designs never left the page, or arrived centuries too early to be built. By his own standards, the future-facing polymath fell short.


    In this episode, Elizabeth Day and Dan Jones roam through history’s workshops, laboratories, monasteries, and battlefields to ask what failure really looks like.


    From Leonardo’s unrealised machines to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek’s accidental discovery of microbiology, from champagne’s explosive beginnings to gunpowder’s grim transformation, they trace how curiosity, misjudgement, and wrong turns can quietly reshape the world. What emerges is a gentler, stranger truth: failure is often just invention, waiting for the world to catch up.


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    As always, Dan’s royal favourites can chime in anytime on the royal court on Patreon at patreon.com/thisishistory. And don’t forget to listen to this season’s accompanying bonus episodes for this miniseries, where Dan and Producer Al are dissecting the biggest historical failures as submitted by the royal favourites. In this episode, they discuss history’s colossal maritime failures, from the White Ship disaster to the Titanic.


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    Presented by Dan Jones and Elizabeth Day

    Producer - Alan Weedon

    Senior Producer - Dominic Tyerman

    Researcher - Phoebe Joyce

    Executive Producer - Simon Poole

    Executive Producer - Louisa Field

    Executive Producer - Dan Jones

    Executive Producer for Daylight Productions - Elizabeth Day

    Production Manager - Jen Mistri

    Production Coordinator - Eric Ryan

    Head of content - Chris Skinner


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    How, exactly, does a woman ‘slip’ out of history? Apr 21, 2026
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    What would you do if your life was omitted, reduced to an overlooked footnote, or filed away as an anomaly?


    In this episode, Dan and Elizabeth turn a lens on the practice of history itself, interrogating the choices and power structures that have traditionally left women out of the history books.


    They retrace the lives of three women who once stood firmly in their moment: Hatshepsut, a pharaoh who consolidated power in Ancient Egypt; Joanna Ferrour, a peasant whose voice briefly direct the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381; and Ada Lovelace, a Victorian thinker whose ideas arrived well before the world was ready for them.


    Each was successful in their time. And yet each of their world-changing contributions were quietly edited out, only to be rediscovered generations — or even millennia later.


    So what does it mean when the practice of history fails to record the world as it was? And what happens when history’s failures reveal themselves, much later, as triumphs to a new generation?


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    As always, Dan’s royal favourites can chime in anytime on the royal court on Patreon at patreon.com/thisishistory. And don’t forget to listen to this season’s accompanying bonus episodes for this miniseries, where Dan and Producer Al are dissecting the biggest historical failures as submitted by the royal favourites. In this episode, they discuss Catherine Parr’s failed arrest, and what the Crusades reveal about success and failure.


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    Presented by Dan Jones and Elizabeth Day

    Producer - Alan Weedon

    Senior Producer - Dominic Tyerman

    Researcher - Phoebe Joyce

    Executive Producer - Simon Poole

    Executive Producer - Dan Jones

    Executive Producer for Daylight Productions - Elizabeth Day

    Production Manager - Jen Mistri

    Production coordinator - Eric Ryan

    Head of content - Chris Skinner


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    Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn are the Ross and Rachel of history Apr 14, 2026
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    To love is to risk heartbreak.


    And while for some, breakups result in renewal, maybe some therapy (or a few months’ spent wallowing), for the historical figures of this episode… a relationship’s end has broken many more things than hearts.


    In this episode, Dan and Elizabeth discover the lessons of history’s epic failed romances through three world-changing unions: Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; Mark Antony and Cleopatra; and Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.


    Each couple burned bright and fast, and with their downfall came the end to the worlds from which they came: Catholic England, the Roman Republic, and (in the case of Edward) a grand near-miss.


    So what can epic historical breakups teach us about our world today? And why are we compelled to come back to grand romantic epics?


    –


    As always, Dan’s royal favourites can chime in anytime on the royal court on Patreon at patreon.com/thisishistory. And don’t forget to listen to this season’s accompanying bonus episodes for this miniseries, where Dan and Producer Al are dissecting the biggest historical failures as submitted by the royal favourites. In this episode, they discuss the failures of royals over various centuries to deliver the one thing they need - heirs.


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    Presented by Dan Jones and Elizabeth Day

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    Senior Producer - Dominic Tyerman

    Researcher - Phoebe Joyce

    Executive Producer - Simon Poole

    Executive Producer - Dan Jones

    Executive Producer for Daylight Productions - Elizabeth Day

    Production Manager - Jen Mistri

    Production coordinator - Eric Ryan

    Head of content - Chris Skinner


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