In this episode of Watching the Tudors we talk about why Thomas More seemed to really want to be a martyr, and why Mary Boleyn really shouldn’t have gotten married without the permission of Anne and Henry.
Learn more about Thomas More on the other podcast episode I did about him here: Episode 055: Tudor Times on Thomas More
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Heather Teysko is the creator, writer, and producer of The Renaissance English History Podcast, the original Tudor history podcast, started in 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. In 2019 she created Tudorcon, which is now a yearly event, in addition to writing books, and running TudorFair.com - a whimsical Tudor Merch shop. 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.