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Elizabeth I's 'Golden' Speech
The queen gave her last speech to Parliament on November 30th, 1601.
Elizabeth I
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.
Reading History: The Reign of Elizabeth I
Christopher Haigh outlines the historiography of the reign of the first Elizabeth.
The Ruler-Cult: From Alexander of Macedon to Elizabeth I of England
Charles Seltman traces the idea of the ruler not only great but good—helper and protector of his subjects—back to Alexander of Macedon.