The Accession of Queen Elizabeth I
A study of the dangers and difficulties that confronted the young Queen in 1558, and of the courageous strategy by which she overcame them. By J.E. Neale.
Elizabethan
Queen Elizabeth and the Historians
A.L. Rowse charts how three centuries of British historians have produced many different interpretations of the great Queen’s character.
Sir Richard Hawkins: Last of a Dynasty
The epic voyage of this Elizabethan adventurer to Peru and his subsequent capture by its Spanish masters inspired Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho! An article by A.L. Rowse.
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth
On 15 January 1559, England’s 25-year-old sovereign left Whitehall to be crowned Queen.