In this November 2023 episode of Not Just the Tudors, historians Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Dr. Lucy Wooding take a tour through the life of Tudor monarch Henry VIII, exploring his upbringing, multiple marriages, and religious reforms.

Whether you see him primarily as a dangerous husband or religious tyrant, your impression of Tudor King Henry VIII is probably not too positive.

On this November 2023 episode of History Hit's podcast miniseries Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Dr. Lucy Wooding, a Henry VIII biographer and professor of history at Lincoln College, Oxford.

The historians discuss major influences and events in Henry's life – his upbringing, marriages, confidantes, religious reforms, and the downfall of Thomas Cromwell – to find out if this notorious Tudor monarch was really the monster history remembers him to be.