The Story of the Elizabethans - 2020
and cotton, drink sweet wines and consume aniseed, nutmeg, mace, turmeric and pistachios. The demand for currants alone from Ott ...
In the 16th century, while Spain and Portugal colonised Africa and the Americas, English explorers set their sights on new route ...
AL AM Y/G ET TY IM AG ES D rake, Ralegh, Hawkins: some of the most famous names in English ex- ploration belong to the Elizabeth ...
BR IDG EM AN /G ET TY IM AG ES searched for gold mines in such inhospitable locations as the sub-Arctic, and founded companies t ...
DR EA MS TIM E In c1552 English merchants, worried by the collapsing Antwerp market, sponsored Sir Hugh Willoughby and Richard C ...
It was claimed that the Silk Road to China was populated with strange and monstrous races ...
AL AM Y Jenkinson made it back to England alive and, rather than abandoning his career in exploration, began searching for route ...
GE TT Y^ I MA GE S/ BR IDG EM AN Margaret Small is lecturer in early modern history at the University of Birmingham, with a focu ...
Living in exile The only authenticated image of Hugh O’Neill, depicted in a Vatican fresco attending a canonisation with the Spa ...
Hiram Morgan tells the story of the Irish earl Hugh O’Neill, a brilliant warrior and slippery negotiator who ran rings around El ...
TO PF OT O year he was confirmed as Earl of Tyrone – he betrothed his daughter Rose to Sir Hugh O’Donnell’s heir, ‘Red Hugh’. As ...
AL AM Y Where the Irish fought back... This map shows the principal clashes between the rebel Gaelic forces and the English armi ...
LISTEN AGAIN To listen to Melvyn Bragg discuss the Plantation of Ireland with experts including Hiram Morgan, go to bbc.co.uk/ ...
I N T R O D U C T O R Y O F F E R I N T R O D U C T O R Y O F F E R * 3 issues for £10 offer only available to UK Direct Debit o ...
Opinion “During Elizabeth’s 4 4 -year reign England was transformed into an increasingly wealthy cultural hub” T he second half ...
The Story of the FROM THE MAKERS OF MAGAZINE £9.99 FROM THE MAKERS OF BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE Victorians ss T^ Victoria & Alber ...
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