The Story of the Elizabethans - 2020
Places to visit Catholic ingenuity in architecture around England Tower of London hrp.org.uk/toweroflondon Few inmates were as ...
alarming. The following year, parliament passed a statute licensing the revenge killing of assassins, or witting beneficiaries o ...
WALTER RALEGH THE HEROIC Elizabethans and the world / Walter Ralegh ...
TRAITOR BR ID GE MA N Pride before a fall This contemporary portrait shows Sir Walter Ralegh in his prime – “a gorgeous, larger- ...
E arly one October morning in 1618, a prisoner walked from the Gatehouse gaol in Westminster to a scaffold in Old Palace Yard. S ...
TO PF OT O/ UN IVE RS ITY O F^ I LL IN OI S/ BR ID GE MA N TIMELINE 1554 1580 Ralegh’s rise and fall 1591 1603 1595 1617 1614 Ra ...
BR ID GE MA N The last Elizabethan At his death, Sir Walter Ralegh was considered the last of the Elizabethans. The Spanish envo ...
pun, gave Ralegh an idea of what was to come. “On my soul, mon,” the monarch said, “I have heard rawly of thee.” After being str ...
BOOKS Sir Walter Raleigh: In Life and Legend by Mark Nicholls and Penry Williams (Continuum, February 2011) The Poems of Sir ...
In 1588, a huge fleet of Spanish ships sailed to attack Britain and secure the overthrow of Elizabeth I – but was defeated in a ...
English Catholics were expected to support the Spanish invasion English merchants helped supply the Armada Elizabeth’s ministers ...
The pope supported the Armada English Catholics sailed aboard the Armada’s ships As the costs of preparing the Armada rocketed, ...
The Armada’s leader, the Duke of Medina Sidonia, did not want the command Sir Francis Drake was more interested in looting booty ...
The Spanish fleet was not the last Armada sent against England On 23 July 1595, four Spanish galleys sailed on a reconnaissance ...
An illustrated contemporary broadside celebrates the exploits of Sir Francis Drake in his campaign against the Spanish. But thou ...
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The Tudors’ unlikely allies This composite image shows Elizabeth I’s Armada portrait alongside a picture of Abd al-Wahid bin Mas ...
Cut off from much of Catholic Europe, Elizabeth I’s regime embarked on a remarkable relationship with the Islamic world, as Jerr ...
culturally superior superpower, to be regarded with fear but also admiration. Martin Luther saw things slightly differently. As ...
Istanbul bazaar Merchants in Constantinople c1580, when England was establishing a string of lucrative trading posts across the ...
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