🎧 God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England with Jessie Childs
🎧 Dan Snow's History Hit • 22m
Jessie Childs is an award-winning author and historian. In this fascinating interview, she explores the Catholic predicament in Elizabethan England - an age in which their faith was criminalised, and almost two hundred Catholics were executed. In exposing the tensions masked by the cult of Gloriana, she considers the terrible consequences when politics and religion collide.
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