Join me for a lively deep-dive with historian and author Amy McElroy—whose books include Educating the Tudors and Women’s Lives in the Tudor Era, with Mary Tudor, Queen of France out next and a new project on Desiderius Erasmus underway. We talk Tudor education, women’s real power at home and court, Mary Tudor’s overlooked influence, and why Erasmus matters.

In this interview, we explore:

• How Amy fell in love with history and turned blogging into books
• Educating the Tudors: what (and how) children learned—across class and gender
• Women’s Lives in the Tudor Era: daughters, wives, mothers, widows—how much agency did they really have?
• Mary Tudor, Queen of France: the sister who shaped a dynasty—beyond the shadow of Henry VIII
• Erasmus: Europe’s sharpest mind—visionary or misunderstood?
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