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Paulina Kewes, "The 1553 succession crisis reconsidered", Historical Research (2017). doi: 10.1111/1468-2281.12178 the period 1585–1603 is now recognised by scholars as distinctly more troubled than the first half of Elizabeth's long reign. Costly wars against Spain and the Irish, involvement in the Netherlands, socio-economic distress, and an authoritarian turn by the regime all cast a pall over Gloriana's final years, underpinning a weariness with the queen's rule and open criticism of her government and its failures. [63] Kett's Rebellion began in 1549 in Norfolk; it started as a demonstration against enclosures of common land. The instigator, Robert Kett, was executed for treason. [67] her private thoughts. In these documents, she voices her own distinctive, and surprisingly resonant concerns. Moreover, a high-level mole was passing Philip II highly secret intelligence about Elizabeth's military and diplomatic plans. For 450

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McLaren, Anne N. Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I: queen and commonwealth 1558–1585 (Cambridge University Press, 1999).Archer, Ian W. and F. Douglas Price (eds). English Historical Documents, 1558–1603 (2011), a wide-ranging major collection He studied history at Clare College, Cambridge, and became a lecturer on Early Modern British History and Renaissance Political Thought, in Britain and the United States. He has held academic positions throughout his career and is still a Fellow in History at Clare College, University of Cambridge, and an Honorary Professor at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. In England and Wales, the Tudor period occurred between 1485 and 1603, and included the Elizabethan period during the reign of ElizabethI (1558–1603). The Tudor period coincides with the dynasty of the House of Tudor in England, which began with the reign of HenryVII. Historian John Guy (1988) argued that "England was economically healthier, more expansive, and more optimistic under the Tudors" than at any time since the Roman occupation. [1] Population and economy [ edit ] Old London Bridge in 1543 Christopher Haigh, English Reformations: religion, politics and society under the Tudors (1992), 203–34.

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The book shows us an ageing woman, who though still powerful, was human too. Her authentic voice is seen in her letters, several of them newly published, in which she confesses human flaws ('You know I am no morning woman') or she justifies her 'just jealousy' of Mary Queen of Scots ('For she herself knoweth how great contentment and liking we had for a time of her friendship'). In other letters, Elizabeth speaks disparagingly of James VI ('I wonder how base minded that king thinks me that with patience I can digest this dishonourable slur. Let him therefore know that I will have satisfaction, or else'), or she threatens disobedient courtiers ('For as we have authority to rule, so we look to be obeyed, and to have obedience directly and surely continued unto us, and so look to be answered herein at your hands'). Her mistrustful, anxious character is evident in reports by Harington that Elizabeth 'stamps with her feet at ill news, and thrusts her rusty sword at times into the arras in great rage'. Bucholz, Robert, and Newton Key. Early modern England 1485–1714: A narrative history (2009); University textbookhttps://www.historyscotland.com/history/history-scotlands-exclusive-interview-with-dr-john-guy-author-of-my/ Interview with the magazine History Scotland He is the author of A Daughter's Love: Thomas More and his daughter Meg, 2009, and Elizabeth: the forgotten years, 2016. verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ replete with intricate spy networks, public scandals and inevitably sex. But it is Elizabeth’s human flaws that The book also offers fascinating and vivid details about Elizabeth's life and times, including stories of Elizabeth and Essex playing cards at night until 'the birds sing in the morning', the discovery that Burghley as opposed to Ralegh was the first man in England to serve the queen sweet potatoes, her liking for all things Italian, for female musicians and acrobats, women fools and dwarfs and her preference for women weeders in her private gardens.