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Walking Tudor England

Season 1

2021 · 6 episodes

  1. 1. The South Coast

    2021-07-13

    Suzannah Lipscomb walks around the country on the trail of the Tudor dynasty. She begins in Hampshire, visiting Southsea Castle, where Henry VIII watched as the Mary Rose sank in the Solent, encounters the fortifications of Old Portsmouth, the home of Henry's revolutionary Tudor navy, and gets a lesson from a Tudor blacksmith.

  2. 2. East Anglia

    2021-07-20

    Suzannah wanders the rich, rural lands of Tudor East Anglia on the trail of 'Bloody' Queen Mary. She unearths the extraordinary events that led Mary to the throne visiting the castle where she was crowned.

  3. 3. Heart of England: Midlands

    2021-07-27

    Suzannah walks through the heart of England, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire to Stamford in Lincolnshire to uncover the stories behind Elizabeth I's reign.

  4. 4. London

    2021-08-03

  5. 5. The Weald

    2021-08-10

    As Suzannah visits The Weald, a quiet corner of Kent and East Sussex, where she spends time at Penshurst Place and Hever Castle where she discovers details about Henry VIII's life.

  6. 6. Yorkshire

    2021-08-17

    As Suzannah walks across the hills and dales of Yorkshire, she discovers the story of the Reformation at sites including St Mary's Abbey and Markenfield Hall.

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