
Deadly bellringing and fatal bacon: grisly accidental Tudor deaths
From HistoryExtra podcast
Published 7/20/2025
From drowning and agricultural mishaps to getting stabbed during a football match, crushed by a pig, scalded by porridge or suffocated by a fish, there were myriad ways to accidentally die in Tudor England. Speaking to Ellie Cawthorne, Steven Gunn reveals what coroners records of fatal accidents…







