Hey, this is Heather from the Renaissance English History Podcast, and this is your Tudor Minute for July 7.
Today in 1568 William Turner died. Turner is known as the Father of English Botany, and early in his career, he set out to create a definitive list of all known English plants and animals. He was a fellow at Pembroke Hall in Cambridge, where he produced several books in the late 1530s and ’40s studying plants in their natural habitat, being as careful as he could to note down all the details.
He was also a Chaplain and physician, and he served several of the nobility, becoming Dean of Wells Cathedral, where he began an herb garden, and also produced books on medicine, including a New Book on Spiritual Physic from 1555. His books are filled with detailed illustrations, and are written in English so as to be available to more people, rather than the Latin which had been the norm before. He also wrote the first book in English solely about birds. William Turner died today, July 7, 1568.
That’s your Tudor Minute for today. Remember you can dive deeper into life in 16th century England through the Renaissance English History Podcast at englandcast.com.
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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.