Elizabethan
Period of English history associated with the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). The period was, on the whole, marked by peace and prosperity. English literature and theatre flourished with authors... read more |
Susan Doran looks at what it meant to be a female monarch in a male world and how the Queen responded to the challenges. |
The first performance of The Tempest on record was at court on All Hallows’ Day, on November 1st 1611. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 11, 2011
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Lauren Kassell reveals how the casebooks, diaries and diagrams of the late-16th-century astrologer Simon Forman provide a unique perspective on a period when the study of the stars began to embrace modern science. |
Dunia Garcia-Ontiveros reveals the tragic fate of Christopher Saxton's beautiful and deeply influential sixteenth-century Atlas of the counties of England and Wales. Published in The History Today website
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Dunia Garcia-Ontiveros reveals the tragic story of torture and martyrdom which inspired Robert Persons' book De persecutione Anglicana libellus quo explicantur afflictiones in the collections of the London Library. Published in The History Today website
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Stephen Alford admires a perceptive article on Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I’s ally and consummate political fixer, by the distinguished Tudor historian Joel Hurstfield, first published in the 1956 volume of History Today. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 4
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Joel Hurstfield's pen portrait of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520-98) appeared in History Today in December 1956. Published in History Today, Volume:16 Issue: 12
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Retha Warnicke investigates one of the key questions of Tudor England. |
Sexually explicit jigs were a major part of the attraction of the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration stage, as Lucie Skeaping explains. |
Sarah Gristwood on the complex issues raised by the restoration of a remarkable Tudor vision of victory over the Spanish Armada. Published in History Today, Volume: 60 Issue: 9
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Ian Friel argues that popular ideas of the nature of Elizabethan seapower are distorted by concentration on big names and major events. Elizabethan England’s emergence on to the world stage owed much more to merchant ships and common seamen than we might think. |
Patrick Williams provides us with the results of the latest research on the Armada |
Michael Morrogh shows that Renaissance men like Sir Walter Ralegh had a decidedly darker side. |
R.E. Foster emphasises the threat to Elizabeth’s regime. |
450 years ago this month, the young Elizabeth became queen of England. Norman Jones looks at evidence from the state papers, newly available online from Cengage, to show how those close to her viewed the challenges faced in the early days by Elizabethan England. |
Richard Cavendish looks back at the accession of Elizabeth I, November 17th, 1558
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