1588: Elizabeth’s Great Achievement
Robin Evans extols the outstanding success of 1588: not the defeat of the Spanish Armada but the publication of the Welsh Bible.
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I: Gender, Power and Politics
Susan Doran looks at what it meant to be a female monarch in a male world and how the Queen responded to the challenges.
Elizabeth I's 'Golden' Speech
The queen gave her last speech to Parliament on November 30th, 1601.
The Execution of the Earl of Essex
After a failed coup d'état against Elizabeth I, Robert Devereux was beheaded at the Tower of London on 25 February 1601
Death of Lord Burghley
One of Elizabeth I's court favourites died on August 4th, 1598, aged 77.
Elizabeth I
As the second Elizabethan age closes in disillusionment, Penry Williams reconsiders whether the first deserved the same fate.
Images of a Dead Queen
‘There was such a generall sighing and groning, and weeping, and the like hath not beene seene or knowne in the memorie of man’: visual images of the death of Elizabeth I played a key role in her funeral and in creating the ensuing cult of Gloriana.
Getting and Spending - Corruption in the Elizabethan Ordnance
Roger Ashley uncovers the story of William Painter and the creative accounting which he employed as a clerk in one of Elizabeth's major spending departments
A Godly Peer? Leicester and the Puritans
Pious nobleman or calculating humbug - what is the true characterisation of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester? Simon Adams sifts the motives for the patronage given to some of Elizabeth's sternest religious critics by her favourite courtier.
The Political Magic of John Dee
Ian Seymour looks at the involvement of Elizabeth I's astrologer in matters of state, and his diplomatic intrigues on the Continent on the eve of the Armada.