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    History

    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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    Was Richard III a Failure? Apr 07, 2026
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    He died at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. And we haven’t been able to stop talking about him since.


    Yes, it’s time to consider the story of England’s last Plantagenet king, Richard III — a centuries-old tangle involving alleged murder, Shakespeare, vanquish and one mighty rediscovery.


    In this debut episode of History’s Greatest Fails, Dan Jones and Elizabeth Day argue that the story of Richard’s rise and fall (and rise again) is much more modern that you’d first believe. Not least because of the reality-TV-style discovery of his remains under a Leicester council car park in 2022.


    In many ways, Richard’s alleged ‘failures’ — which include allegedly killing the Princes in the Tower and overseeing the demise of Plantagenet rule — overshadow Richard III as the reformer that also existed. He introduced trial by jury and translated many laws into English. But those facts are not often what’s associated with him. He’s more likely to be seen as the villainous caricature of Shakespeare’s Richard III.


    So in this episode, we’ll discover:


    What Richard's story tells us about failure in the present.

    How Tudor propaganda codified his ‘failure’, and how

    How those failures have been revised over over the centuries

    And the chain of events that propelled the search for his bones


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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. This episode, they discuss Wat Tyler’s failed Peasants Rebellion, Tulip Mania, and the South Sea Bubble of 1720.


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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

    Special thanks to Alex Lawless, Hannah Talbot, and Selina Ream


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    S9 E12 | Rise of the Yorks Mar 24, 2026
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    To learn more about the last time an English king was usurped, listen to Season 7, Bonus Episode 12, where Dan tells the story of Henry VI’s grandfather, Henry Bolingbroke. In 1399, he toppled Richard II to become King Henry IV.

    By 1460, England has emerged into a polycrisis.

    King Henry VI has been relegated to a pawn. His son and wife have been disinherited, with Richard, Duke of York, now heir presumptive. Violence pulses through the countryside.

    In this pivotal chapter of the Wars of the Roses, it appears that Yorkist forces have finally overwhelmed the Lancastrians in the battle for the crown.

    But then, Richard, Duke of York is killed in an ambush. It throws everything into disarray, and Queen Margaret of Anjou makes one last attempt at violent restoration.

    It appears the clock has run out for the Yorkists. That is, until the eleventh hour, when Richard's son, Edward Earl of March, is propelled into the decisive moment.

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    S9 E11 | The Pact Mar 17, 2026
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    Royal favourites, we want your voice notes in our new miniseries on historical failures. Look out for Producer Al’s callout post on patreon.com/thisishistory.

    It’s there where you can listen to this week’s bonus episode, where Dan gives an explainer on Warwick's piracy, the value of Calais, and the risks of another royal usurpation. Plus, hear more about Dan’s meltdown over a parking ticket.

    All is not well in a simmering kingdom.

    Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick — a key ally of Richard Duke of York — is holding the last skerrick of English territory in France: Calais. He’s the top military boss over there, but in recent months he’s been behaving like a high‑born pirate king.

    Queen Margaret of Anjou decides enough is enough. She summons him back to England for a crackdown, but in the process, she sends Warwick, York — and his towering heir Edward, Earl of March — into open revolt. England erupts into a series of battles between Lancastrians and Yorkists at Blore Heath, Ludford Bridge, and Northampton.

    What emerges is a full blown succession crisis.

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    Written and presented by Dan Jones

    Producer - Alan Weedon Senior Producer - Dominic Tyerman

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    Production Manager - Jen Mistri

    Production coordinator - Eric Ryan

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    S9 E10 | The Battle of St Albans Mar 10, 2026
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    Royal favourites, we want your voice notes in our new miniseries on historical failures. Look out for Producer Al’s callout post on patreon.com/thisishistory.

    It’s there where you can listen to this week’s bonus episode, where Dan gives you a primer on the pirate-cum-warlord, the Earl of Warwick. Plus, Dan makes good on his promise to tell the story of when he absolutely lost it over something rather inconsequential.

    All the drift and failure of Henry VI’s reign is coming home to roost. The fizzer of a king’s dodging arrows and men coming his way — and they’re not holding back.

    It’s 1455, and in the old Roman town of St Albans, the royal court are met with a battle. Richard, Duke of York — along with the Nevilles — are leading an insurgency that wants to topple the Queen’s favourite, Edmund, Duke of Somerset.

    Amid all the fracas, the king tries to intervene. He dabbles in kindergarten-level peace making by literally making his warring nobles hold hands.

    The loveday beckons.

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    Written and presented by Dan Jones

    Producer - Alan Weedon Senior Producer - Dominic Tyerman

    Executive Producer - Simon Poole

    Production Manager - Jen Mistri

    Production coordinator - Eric Ryan

    Mixing - Amber Devereux

    Head of content - Chris Skinner


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    S9 E9 | Madness Descends Mar 03, 2026
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    Royal favourites, we want your voice notes in our new miniseries on historical failures. Look out for Producer Al’s callout post on patreon.com/thisishistory.

    It’s there where you can listen to this week’s bonus episode, where Dan discusses what likely triggered Henry VI’s descent into silence, while he also gives a primer on England’s warring noble families: the Nevilles, Percys, and Courtenays.

    Henry VI isn’t responding to anyone. Not to his physician, nor to his newborn son, Prince Edward. He’s just inert, catatonic.

    If the king’s health is said to be a mirror of the health of the realm, then England’s in big trouble (which it is). The Hundred Years’ War is on the verge of being decisively over in France’s favour. England has lost Gascony, Normandy, and Maine, with only the small Garrison at Calais left.

    This a full-blown crisis that is usually left to the king to solve, but instead, Parliament decides to make Richard Duke of York the Protector of the realm — angering Queen Margaret and York’s nemesis, Edmund Duke of Somerset.

    Then something remarkable happens: Henry wakes up.

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    Written and presented by Dan Jones

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    Production Manager - Jen Mistri

    Production coordinator - Eric Ryan

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    S9 E8 | Royal Blood Feb 24, 2026
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    Royal favourites, we want your voice notes in our new miniseries on historical failures. Look out for Producer Al’s callout post on patreon.com/thisishistory.

    There you can also listen to this week’s bonus episode, where we discuss the Duke of York’s super-royal credentials, and why the Duke of Somerset fails upward.

    Henry VI’s royal court breathes a collective sigh of relief — Queen Margaret of Anjou is pregnant. It’s a welcome addition to what remains of a vanishingly thin Plantagenet dynasty.

    Aside from Henry, this is the first royal birth in 50 years.

    The celebrations don’t last long. As 1453 rolls on, two prominent nobles are fighting to rule on behalf of an impotent king. Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset is the king’s favourite… but he’s also the man who lost Normandy. At his heels is Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, a man feared by the nobility but loved by England’s increasingly frustrated populace.

    The realm will soon have to make a stark choice, because a catastrophic blow to English power is imminent.

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    S9 E7 | Cade’s Rebellion Feb 17, 2026
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    Don’t forget! Dan’s gifted you his favourite bonus episode from this season. To listen for free, simply search for the last episode before this one.

    England is descending into mob rule. Henry VI has presided over a catastrophic loss over almost all of the Plantagenet possessions in France, and many in the realm want a scapegoat. Assassinations of powerful officials including the Duke of Suffolk, William de La Pole ensue. And in the summer of 1450, the violence comes to a head. Rebels led by military captain Jack Cade storm London in an echo of the Peasants’ Rebellion of 1381.

    Remember, you can delve deeper into the history behind this episode by subscribing to our bonus episodes. This week Dan and Producer Al elaborate on the rebellion of 1450, while Dan reads a poignant letter from William de La Pole. Addressed to his eight-year-old son, the text documents England on the brink of all-out civil war.

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    Written and presented by Dan Jones

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    Was the Queen of England a French spy? Feb 13, 2026
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    Hello! We’ve gifted one of Dan’s favourite bonus episodes from Season 9 just for you. To listen to all bonus episodes, ad-free, subscribe at patreon.com/thisishistory


    Dan and Producer Al explore the likelihood of Margaret of Anjou, the English queen, having been a sleeper agent for the French. How involved was she in getting Henry VI to give up Maine? And what made Henry so useless? Did he have any redeeming features?

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    Presented by Dan Jones and Alan Weedon

    Senior Producer - Dominic Tyerman

    Executive Producer - Simon Poole

    Production Manager - Jen Mistri

    Production coordinator - Eric Ryan

    Mixing - Gulliver Lawrence-Tickell

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    S9 E6 | The Ambush Feb 10, 2026
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    Royal favourites, we want your voice notes in our new miniseries on historical failures. Look out for Producer Al’s callout post on patreon.com/thisishistory

    Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester — Henry V’s last surviving brother — is lost in delusion. He still believes England can somehow hold its possessions in France, even as its soldiers are exhausted, its treasury is drained, and its enemies grow stronger by the day. Across the Channel, King Charles VII of France hardly needs to fight; he simply needs to wait for England to collapse under the weight of its own war.

    But in Westminster, reality is catching up. William de la Pole, Henry VI’s most trusted advisor, summons a special parliament to confront the crisis head‑on — a moment designed to force the kingdom, and Humphrey himself, to face the truth.

    What happens next delivers the biggest shock of Humphrey’s political life, sending ripples through the court and reshaping England’s future.

    In this episode of This Is History: A Dynasty to Die For, historian Dan Jones unpacks a turning point where denial meets destiny — and a proud duke discovers the cost of refusing to see the world as it is.

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    Written and presented by Dan Jones

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    S9 E5 | Enter the She Wolf Feb 03, 2026
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    Royal favourites, we want your voice notes in our new miniseries on historical failures. Look out for Producer Al’s callout post on patreon.com/thisishistory

    England’s grip on France is collapsing. After more than a century of brutal conflict, English forces across the Channel are exhausted, bankrupt, and beaten down.

    In London, hopes rest on King Henry VI — now an adult and expected to rescue his father’s dying empire. But Henry is no warrior king, and the French are dismantling England’s hard‑won gains with shocking ease.

    Then, a new force enters the fray: Margaret of Anjou. Young, formidable, and newly crowned Queen of England, she becomes a lightning rod for ambition, fear, and bitter factional rivalries. Some believe she can save England’s fortunes in France; others fear she is about to upend the entire balance of power at court.

    As defeat looms and alliances fracture, this episode traces how Margaret of Anjou steps into a failing war — and begins reshaping the fate of the Hundred Years’ War, the English crown, and the violent political battles still to come.

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    Production Manager - Jen Mistri

    Production coordinator - Eric Ryan

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