Sveriges mest populära poddar
Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors
Historia

Episode 143: The Great Debasement

19 min•16 april 2020

In the 1540's Henry VIII began what economists have called the greatest monetary treason ever committed against citizens. What was this con job? The Great Debasement, when coins went from containing about 92% silver to less than 30%. More money to make war on France! And Ireland! Only not. It backfired. Royally and majestically.

Get show notes at englandcast.com/money

And thanks!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fler avsnitt av Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

Visa alla avsnitt av Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors
The Secret That Changes Everything We Thought About "Bloody Mary"
•44 min
How Do We Actually Know What Anne Boleyn Looked Like? Art Historian Roland Hui Breaks It Down (Tudor Summit Throwback)
•30 min
How the Tudors Decided Who Deserved to Eat
•28 min
What If Elizabeth I Had Married Robert Dudley? (The Decision That Nearly Broke Her)
•26 min
The Priest Hunter's Nightmare: Nicholas Owen and the Hiding Places No One Could Find
•22 min
The Women Who Hid Priests in Their Walls
•26 min
The Priest Who Escaped the Tower of London
•24 min
Henry VIII Got Six Tries. Could His Wives Get One?
•19 min
Edward VI vs. The Dragon: A Protestant Boy King Who Tried to Rewrite England's Most Elite Knighthood
•21 min
Constable of the Tower, Then Its Prisoner: The Wild Life of Eleanor de Clare
•25 min

Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors med Heather Teysko finns tillgänglig på flera plattformar. Informationen på denna sida kommer från offentliga podd-flöden.