Please welcome historian Carol Chillington Rutter to the show, and today we're talking about the life and times of Henry Wotton, a Tudor and Jacobean Italian ambassador who helped prevent a pan-European war. Who was he? Let's find out more...

Welcome, Carol!

Carol's books are published with Manchester University Press.

A great thank you to Carol for joining us today, and if you would like to see Carol at this year's Oxford Literary Festival, the bookings are open, please see link in the description below for Carol's chat with Clare Jackson on Henry Wotton and James VI & I.

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https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526172068/

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Get Shakespeare in Performance: The Henry VI Plays:

https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719080937/

See Carol at Oxford Literary Festival 2026:

https://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events/2026/march-24/history-makers-james-vi-and-i-and-henry-wotton

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https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/people/rutterprofcarol/

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Tudors & Stuarts:

https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/royal-london-tudors-stuarts-walking-tour-t481355/

The Georgians:

https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/royal-london-the-georgians-walking-tour-t481358/

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