The Story of the Elizabethans - 2020

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63 The Queen’s Day

Anna Whitelock explores the

pomp and politics of the annual

accession day celebrations

68 The three-week

wedding proposal

Elizabeth Goldring visits

Kenilworth Castle to experience

the ‘princely pleasures’ laid on by

Robert Dudley to woo the queen

74 ELIZABETHANS

AND THE WORLD

76 Elizabeth’s war with

England’s Catholics

Jessie Childs traces the travails of

recusants and ‘church papists’

82 Walter Ralegh: the

heroic traitor

Mark Nicholls charts the rise and

dramatic fall of the self-made

Elizabethan renaissance man

89 Eight surprising facts

about the Spanish Armada

Robert Hutchinson reveals little-

known aspects of the ill-fated

campaign to invade England

96 The Tudors’ unlikely allies

After Elizabeth was

excommunicated, England

embarked on a remarkable

relationship with Islamic empires,

explains Jerry Brotton

101 How exploration laid the

foundations of empire

Margaret Small follows in the

footsteps of Elizabethan pioneers

whose discoveries paved the way

for international trade

108 Elizabeth’s Irish nemesis

Hiram Morgan tells the story

of Earl Hugh O’Neill, whose

audacious rebellion almost

ended English rule in Ireland

114 Opinion

Nicola Tallis explores the

enduring appeal of the

Elizabethan age

34

Why times were tough

for ordinary Elizabethans

39

The stateliest homes of

Elizabethan England

14

Festivals, fair robes and filthy rags:

unseen lives in Elizabethan England

63

Celebrating the

monarch’s accession day

68

How Robert Dudley

embarked on a dramatic

three-week marriage

proposal to the queen