{"id":1922,"date":"2018-01-19T18:53:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T18:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2018-01-19T18:53:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T18:53:44","slug":"england-reign-elizabeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/england-reign-elizabeth\/","title":{"rendered":"England in the Reign of Elizabeth I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A new unit about England and her relationship with the world during the Reign of Elizabeth I. The Elizabethan era is one that is widely lauded as being a Golden Age. Here we look at the achievements, the struggles and the discoveries of that age. It&#8217;s written with the GCSE specification topics in mind. Other aspects, such as Shakespeare, will be covered at a later stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/elizabeth_1_coronation.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1840\" src=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/elizabeth_1_coronation.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth I in her Coronation Robes\" width=\"220\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elizabethan England was a dangerous place. There were <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/british-history\/elizabethan-era\/plots-rebellions-elizabethan-age\/\">rebellions<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/british-history\/elizabethan-era\/elizabethan-settlement\/\">religious changes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/british-history\/elizabethan-era\/plots-rebellions-elizabethan-age\/\">plots<\/a> from home and abroad. Her court oversaw a population rise and tried to tackle the growing problem of <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/british-history\/elizabethan-era\/elizabethan-poor-law\/\">poverty<\/a>. Isolated politically due to religious differences the English faced threats from abroad. The most dangerous of these is now remembered as a great victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/british-history\/elizabethan-era\/spanish-armada\/\">Spanish Armada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The reign also saw problems relating to the succession to the throne. Unmarried and childless, the natural heir was <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/british-history\/elizabethan-era\/mary-queen-scots\/\">Mary, Queen of Scots<\/a>. Yet Mary was problematic. Not only had she been forced into exile from her own country but she was openly Catholic, pro-French and involved in plots to overthrow Elizabeth. Her end came on the executioners block.<\/p>\n<p>The content of our new unit on Elizabethan England is as below. We welcome links to quality materials about the period and any corrections. With regards corrections&#8230; several prominent websites have errors on them relating to dates. While probably typos that haven&#8217;t been picked up when proofreading, they can be slightly misleading. Some are quite obviously wrong: one dates an Elizabethan agreement as 1985. With that in mind extra effort has gone into checking such information for this unit.<\/p>\n<p>[table id=22 \/]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new unit about England and her relationship with the world during the Reign of Elizabeth I. The Elizabethan era is one that is widely lauded as being a Golden Age. Here we look at the achievements, the struggles and the discoveries of that age. It&#8217;s written with the GCSE specification topics in mind. 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