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The History of England

316 The Valois Extinguished

The defeat of the Armada feels in retrospect like a watershed in Elizabeth's reign; many of her...

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315b The Tilbury Speech in Film, with Sean Lang

Elizabeth has been a favourite subject for film makers; but the way her famous Tilbury Speech has...

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315a The Trafalgar Way by Adam Preston

After the battle of Trafalgar, the news needed to be brought to London as fast as possible. This...

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315 God Breathed

As the Armada sailed serenely up the Channel, the English tried desperately to make some...

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314 Drake goes Bowling

The Great Armada was do to sail in 1587; but Elizabeth had other ideas. By in May 1588 the Duke...

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313 England is Ours

From a desk in a small suite of rooms in El Escorial Philip II ran a vast colonial empire. With...

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312 My Heart is my Own

By the mid 1580\'s Mary was at her wits\' end - feeling betrayed by her son, 18 years of...

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310a Marlowe by Philip Rowe

Playwright and Wunderkind Philip Marlowe and his short life, ended as mysteriously as it was...

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311 Fears of State

In a time of existential and moral threat, the English state developed a network of informants...

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310 The English College

By the 1580s, the confessional lines between Protestant and Catholic were increasingly strongly...

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309 Godly, Godlier and Godliest

Elizabeth set her face against further reform, against pressures from within the church and...

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308a Roanoke by Joel Kindrick

In 1585, a colony was established at Roanoke, sponsored by Walter Raleigh. Find out what happens...

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308 Fool's Gold

A host of Elizabeth explorers explored the world in the late Elizabethan reign. Did they achieve...

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307b What makes Nelson Special by Adam Preston

Nelson was an extraordinary mix - described by N A M Rodgers as 'Vulnerable and weak as a man,...

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370a Renaissance Warfare by Ben Jacobs

Ben Jacobs talks about how the demands and costs of Renaissance warfare changed the nature of...

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307 All Around the World

For a couple of years in the mid 1570s Elizabeth nixed proposed exploration projects for fear of...

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306 A Devil and No Man

Together the Elizabethan explorers, and authors like John Dee and Richard Hakluyt built...

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305 The Frog Prince

From 1578 to 1582 the courts of France, Spain and England buzzed with the possibility of the...

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304 Seeds of Irish Nationhood

By the 1580s, the English atrocities and the rebellion of James Fitzmaurice and the Earl of...

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303 Shane the Proud

The later Tudors faced a choice in their policy towards Ireland - would they resign themselves to...

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