Euan Roger

Overview

Euan Roger is the National Archives historian who guides the medieval and Tudor half of Treason: People, Power and Plot in episode 248 of The Rest Is History.

Current Profile

Roger interprets treason through surviving legal objects and the human cases attached to them. He treats the Treason Act 1351/1352 as a durable baseline, explains how Parliamentary Attainder and punishment extended a conviction into property and family, and uses cases from Dafydd ap Gruffydd to Richard Roose and Guy Fawkes to show doctrine changing under political pressure.

Key Characteristics

• Archival interpreter of medieval and Tudor treason law.
• Guide to Treason: People, Power and Plot.
• Connects statute rolls and prosecution records to changing political authority.
• Distinguishes the 1351 legal date from the 1352 archival dating convention.
• Emphasizes both continuity in the core statute and instability in its application.

Evidence

• Exhibition role: 248. Medieval Treason (Part 1) presents Roger guiding the hosts through the National Archives exhibition.
• Legal interpretation: 248. Medieval Treason (Part 1) attributes to him the dating explanation, the statute’s core clauses, and the repeal of most Henrician additions.
• Case method: 248. Medieval Treason (Part 1) follows his use of documents concerning punishment, magic, attainder, poisoning, religious conflict, and the Gunpowder Plot.

Qualifications

This profile is bounded to one exhibition conversation. It does not reconstruct Roger’s full institutional role, publications, research record, or views beyond the claims attributed to him in the episode.

What Changed

• Created a source-bounded profile centered on archival interpretation of medieval and Tudor treason.

Relationships

• The National Archives - institution and exhibition setting for Roger’s document-based interpretation.
• The Rest Is History - podcast on which he presents the material.
• Treason Act 1351/1352 - legal anchor of his account.
• Parliamentary Attainder - procedure he uses to explain political conviction and hereditary loss.
• Richard Roose - case illustrating Henrician expansion and spectacular punishment.