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308 Fool's Gold
Season 6 Episode 43
A host of Elizabeth explorers explored the world in the late Elizabethan reign. Did they achieve anything, or were there efforts a false start?
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4 years, 11 months ago
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, Nelson was also a leader of unequalled ardou…
4 years, 11 months ago
370a Renaissance Warfare by Ben Jacobs
Ben Jacobs talks about how the demands and costs of Renaissance warfare changed the nature of Europe for ever
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4 years, 11 months ago
307 All Around the World
Season 6 Episode 42
For a couple of years in the mid 1570s Elizabeth nixed proposed exploration projects for fear of Spain. At the same time she was discussing a secret …
5 years ago
306 A Devil and No Man
Season 6 Episode 41
Together the Elizabethan explorers, and authors like John Dee and Richard Hakluyt built excitement about the possibilities of global exploration. Fra…
5 years ago
305 The Frog Prince
Season 6 Episode 40
From 1578 to 1582 the courts of France, Spain and England buzzed with the possibility of the latest office romance - between the Queen of England and…
5 years ago
304 Seeds of Irish Nationhood
Season 6 Episode 39
By the 1580s, the English atrocities and the rebellion of James Fitzmaurice and the Earl of Desmond, Catholicism and its association with resistance …
5 years, 1 month ago
303 Shane the Proud
Season 6 Episode 38
The later Tudors faced a choice in their policy towards Ireland - would they resign themselves to the old ways, ruling through the Old English with m…
5 years, 1 month ago
302 England's Garland
Season 6 Episode 37
There are many myths about the Elizabethan Navy, the idea of a world-beating tool that created an international Empire. It wasn't quite, and it didn'…
5 years, 2 months ago
301 Black Tudors
Season 6 Episode 36
Black Africans began to make their way in increasing numbers to England - firstly mainly via trading countries like Spain and Portugal, but increasin…
5 years, 2 months ago