Watching The Tudors Season 2 Episode 1 Everything is Beautiful:
We’re talking about Anne Boleyn’s rise to the throne. We get some interesting foreshadowing here of witchcraft accusations, and there’s a really horrible scene where a cook gets boiled to death (which really happened).
Also, this is our first episode on Acast (our new hosting) and there will be an ad. I hope we’ve worked it in properly. Sorry if it bugs you. Thanks for your patience as we figure this out.
The most important larger theme (ie larger for most people in 16th century England) is the idea of positioning Anne as a witch very early on. This is a common way for men to sideline noble women. And even non-noble women who were older and alone with no protection feared the witchcraft label, and it was a real fear.
Below the episode, I’ve put another episode I did with Britney of History, Bitches (a great feminist history podcast) on witchcraft. We talk a lot about witches in early modern England. It’s good listening if you want to dig into the witchcraft scene on a deeper level.
Finally, the episode with the cook was real. I’m adding in some links below on that episode, which is one of the most sinister History Mysteries I know.
But here, Watching The Tudors Season 2 Episode 1 Everything is Beautiful:
Witches and witchcraft episode:
Roose Poisoning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Roose
http://englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.com.es/2014/07/the-death-of-bishops-poisoner.html
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Heather Teysko is the creator, writer, and producer of The Renaissance English History Podcast,  one of the longest running indie history podcasts, going since 2009. She's been writing about history online for over 25 years, since her first site on Colonial American history became number one in history on Yahoo in 1998. She writes books, created the original Tudor Planner (a yearly diary filled with Tudor history) and in 2019 created the world's first Tudorcon (you can "attend" online this year!). She has been passionate about Tudor England since she first read Alison Weir's The Six Wives of Henry VIII 20 years ago, and subsequently moved to London after college to spend her time immersed in Tudor history.