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Nov 2, 2026
Susannah LipscombGUEST
I am an emeritus professor at the University of Roehampton, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Susannah LipscombGUEST
I have a column that I write for History Today, and I'm a host of a podcast called Not Just the Tudors from History Hit.
Susannah LipscombGUEST
And I've written books about Henry VIII and about witchcraft and about women in 16th century France.
Susannah LipscombGUEST
So it touches on some of my interests about kind of religious and gender and social history and political history in the period.
Cassidy CashHOST
She's fascinated by the rich and complex history of Stuart Britain and its continental neighbors, having presented highly successful television programs for the BBC.
Cassidy CashHOST
And her latest book, The Mirror of Great Britain, A Life of King James VI and I, was deemed a top five book of 2025 by the Financial Times and was also selected as Book of the Year by the Times, History Today, and the Royal Academy Magazine.
Cassidy CashHOST
Claire joins us today to unpack who commissioned this commemorative coin, why Dutch hands meant to England's deliverance, and what its imagery reveals about James himself.
Cassidy CashHOST
Hello, Claire.
Adrian BrackenNARRATOR
Now printed worldwide, the Irish edition of the Financial Times today, ironically, is printed in Birr, not 20 miles from Templemore, where Bracken was born.
Adrian BrackenNARRATOR
Brendan Bracken started one more niche publication, History Today, the title suggested by Winston Churchill himself.
Adrian BrackenNARRATOR
History Today launched in 1951 and has always drawn together the best and latest history writers ever since.
Adrian BrackenNARRATOR
Over 60 years later, History Today still thrives.
Adrian BrackenNARRATOR
In the spring of 1958, Bracken was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer, years of cigarette smoking having its inevitable result.
Adrian BrackenNARRATOR
But on the 8th of August 1958, Brendan Bracken died.
ClaraHOST
Yeah, tell us a bit about what we're working with today.
ClaraHOST
So we have modern historiography, specifically this really intense debate from a History Today article featuring scholars like, uh, Geoffrey Parker, Kate Fleet, Kiril Petkov, and Roger Crowley.
AdrianHOST
And they really go at each other on what this battle actually meant.
ClaraHOST
Oh, absolutely.
21 MINS LATER
AdrianHOST
So Don John is victorious? The Pope's desperate gamble pays off?
ClaraHOST
On paper, yes.
AdrianHOST
But what did it actually change? Because this is where the historians in our History Today source start throwing academic punches at each other.
ClaraHOST
It is a fiercely debated topic.