This week Luke and Mike talk about the most notorious monarchs to have ruled over England: the Tudors!

This episode includes the story of how the Tudors came to power through the War of the Roses, a whistle-stop run down of Henry VII's six wives as well as an unrequited love story that led to a would-be invasion of England by Spain!

In the "Great Library of Alexandria" we talk about an absolute whopper of a book (over 15 hours in Audio book format!), Our Island Story by H.E. Marshall, which you can purchase here.

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This week Luke and Mike are joined by special guest, Joel (11) to tell us a banana themed fact about the Stuarts!

We also cover 111 years of English history that sees the execution of the King and 11 years without any monarch.

Mike also gets confused about how Charles II could hide inside a tree and Luke theorises about what would have happened if the Puritans had known Oliver Cromwell was going to come to power.

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In this episode Luke and Mike tell the story of the first permanent English colony in North America - Jamestown!

Having recently visited historic Jamestown, Luke is full of facts and stories of the early days of the colony right through to its eventual demise a hundred years later.

In the "Great Library of Alexandria" we review the review the DK book, the Children's Encyclopedia of American History.