Episode 68 – Talking Tudors with Professor James Daybell

Natalie Grueninger speaks to Professor James Daybell about the culture and practices of letter-writing in Tudor England.

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Books Mentioned

Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England by James Daybell

The Material Letter in Early Modern England by James Daybell

Shakespeare’s Letters by Alan Stewart

The Carriers’ Cosmography: or A Brief Relation of The Inns, Ordinaries, Hostelries, and other lodgings in and near London by John Taylor

Land Travel and Communications in Tudor and Stuart England: Achieving a Joined-up Realm by Mark Brayshay

Links of Interest

Histories of the Unexpected

Cultures of Knowledge

Letterlocking Project

Professor Daybell’s Tudor Takeaways

The Lisle Letters, edited by Muriel St Clare Byrne

Two Elizabethan Women: Correspondence of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611 (Wiltshire Record Society), edited by Alison D. Wall


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