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Toilets through time | 3. Tudor garderobes
Episode 2055

Toilets through time | 3. Tudor garderobes

Tracy Borman tells David Musgrove about the secrets of the royal Tudor water closet

HistoryExtra podcast · Immediate

August 7, 202435m 23s

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Show Notes

Did constipation turn Henry VIII into a tyrant? For the third episode of our mini-series Toilets Through Time, David Musgrove revisits the luxurious surroundings of the royal Tudor water closet. To tell him more about unappealing 16th-century alternatives to loo roll, 'grooms of the stool' and Henry VIII’s gut health, David is joined by author and public historian Tracy Borman.


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