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In conversation with…

Dr Alex Hildred, Head of Research and Diane Budden, Medical Historian.

Episode 4: The Tudor Pandemic

Mary Rose Museum · In conversation with… Dr Alex Hildred, Head of Research and Diane Budden, Medical Historian.

Coronavirus it was not, but ‘The Sweating Sickness’, the epidemic prevalent in Tudor England, was a match for our current pandemic and was feared greatly by the population of England. If contracted, you could be dead in a matter of hours. Scary stuff!

Alex and Diane, discuss this epidemic, and other widespread diseases as well as Tudor medicine in general and how those diseases were treated.

Why we’re not rebuilding the Mary Rose

Why we’re not rebuilding the Mary Rose

A question that often gets asked is if there are plans to rebuild the port side of the Mary Rose, so that “you’d have a whole ship!”, but would we really?

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A Tale of Two Ships: Vasa and the Mary Rose

A Tale of Two Ships: Vasa and the Mary Rose

In 1961, the Swedish brought their own historic ship to the surface, which has an origin story you might have heard attributed to someone else…

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Mary Rose- A lifetime on film.

Mary Rose- A lifetime on film.

The Mary Rose Trust’s audio-visual collection has been growing for over 40 years, but data storage formats have changed a lot over the years.

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