Elton, England under the Tudors, 2e (1974)

G. R. Elton.
England under the Tudors.
London: Methuen and Co., 1955.
Second Edition. London: Methuen and Co., 1974. {I read the 1974 edition.}
Third Edition. Abingdon: Routledge, 1991.
London: The Folio Society, 1999.
Routledge Classics. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com 2018.

Book Series: A History of England, Volume 4, Methuen.
Also: A History of England, Volume 5, The Folio Society.

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Video:

• "Diarmaid MacCulloch discusses G.R. Elton’s England Under the Tudors," Taylor & Francis Books, 31 May 2018.

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Author Information:

• Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994), Wikipedia.
• G. R. Elton. The Tudor Revolution in Government: A Study of Administrative Changes in the Reign of Henry VIII. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953.
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• G. R. Elton. Star Chamber Stories. London: Methuen and Co., 1958. Abingdon: Routledge, 2010.
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• G. R. Elton, editor. The Tudor Constitution: Documents and Commentary, Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. (First edition 1960.)
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• G. R. Elton. Reformation Europe: 1517-1559, Second Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 1999. (First edition 1963.)
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• G. R. Elton. The Practice of History, Second Edition. Fontana, 1969. Wiley-Blackwell, 1991, 2002.
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• G. R. Elton. Policy and Police: The Enforcement of the Reformation in the Age of Thomas Cromwell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.
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• G. R. Elton. Reform and Renewal: Thomas Cromwell and the Common Weal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.
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• G. R. Elton. Reform and Reformation: England, 1509-1558. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977.
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• Robert William Fogel and G. R. Elton. Which Road to the Past? Two Views of History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
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• G. R. Elton. F.W. Maitland. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
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• G. R. Elton. The Parliament of England, 1559-1581. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
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• G. R. Elton, editor. The Reformation, 1520-1559, Second Edition. Volume 2 in The New Cambridge Modern History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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• G. R. Elton. Return to Essentials: Some Reflections on the Present State of Historical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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• Geoffrey Elton. The English. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1992.
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• G. R. Elton. Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Papers and Reviews 1946–1972: Volume 1. Tudor Politics, Tudor Government. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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• G. R. Elton. Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Papers and Reviews 1946–1972, Volume 2. Parliament Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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• G. R. Elton. Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Volume 3. Papers and Reviews 1973–1981. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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• G. R. Elton. Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Volume 4. Papers and Reviews 1982–1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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• Delloyd J. Guth and John W. McKenna, editors. Tudor Rule and Revolution: Essays for G R Elton from His American Friends. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
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Wikipedia Articles, In Our Time, etc.:

• Early modern Britain, Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
• Tudor period, 1485-1603.
• English Renaissance, late Fifteenth Century to early Seventeenth Century.
• Anglo-Scottish Wars.
• TudorHistory.org, tudorhistory.org.

Business, Economy, etc.:

• Economy of England in the Middle Ages.
• Economic history of the United Kingdom: 16th–17th century.
• Price revolution of the Sixteenth Century.
• Medieval English wool trade.
• The Staple.
• Intercursus Magnus, a commercial treaty signed February 1496 by Henry VII, Philip IV of Burgundy, Venice, Florence, the Netherlands, and the Hanseatic League.
• Merchants of the Staple, English exporters, especially of wool.
• Company of Merchant Adventurers of London.
• History of the English fiscal system.
• Statute of Artificers 1563.
• Poor relief: Tudor era.
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• Hanseatic League, established 1358, diminished slowly after 1450.
• Michael Portillo, "The Hanseatic League," Things We Forgot to Remember, BBC Radio 4, 21 Dec 2009.
• Neil MacGregor, "Holbein and the Hansa," Germany: Memories of a Nation, BBC Radio 4, 16 Oct 2014.
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• Melvyn Bragg, Evelyn Welch, Robert Black, Catherine Fletcher, "The Medici," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, Boxing Day 2013. (Includes a reading list.)
• Florence: Middle Ages and Renaissance.
• Republic of Florence, 1115–1532.
• Italian Renaissance, Fourteenth through Sixteenth Centuries.
• House of Medici.
• Medici Bank, 1397–1494.
• Cosimo de' Medici (1389–1464).
• Lorenzo de' Medici (1449–1492), Lorenzo the Magnificent; grandson of Cosimo de' Medici.
• Pazzi conspiracy of 1478.
• Catherine de' Medici (1547–1589), Queen consort of France 1547–1559.
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• Thomas Gresham (c.1519–1579), merchant, financier.
• Royal Exchange, London; Gresham's Exchange opened 1568; renamed the Royal Exchange in 1571.
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• Tudor Festival: Sir Thomas Gresham and His World Lecture Series, Gresham College, 2019.
  • Ian Archer, "Sir Thomas Gresham, London and Europe," Gresham College, 09 January 2019.
  • Steve Jones, "Evolution Since Sir Thomas Gresham," Gresham College, 29 January 2019.
  • Nandini Das, "Gresham's World: Global Traffic, Trade and the Metamorphosis of England," Gresham College, 06 February 2019.
  • Joseph Silk, "How Astronomy Changed our View of the Cosmos: From Gresham to the 21st Century," Gresham College, 6 March 2019.
  • Margaret Willes, "Gresham's Bequest to Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn," Gresham College, 11 March 2019.
    • Margaret Willes. The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.
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  • Carolyn Roberts, "The Natural Environment of Tudor London," Gresham College, 10 April 2019.
  • Chris Budd, "500 Years of Mathematics," Gresham College, 30 April 2019.
  • Stephen Alford, "Gresham's Exchange," Gresham College, 08 May 2019.
  • John Guy, "Sir Thomas Gresham 1519-2019," Gresham College, 13 June 2019.
    • John Guy. Gresham's Law: The Life and World of Queen Elizabeth I's Banker. London: Profile Books, 2019.
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• Matteo Ricci (1552–1610), Italian Jesuit priest who translated knowledge between China and Europe.
• Ming dynasty, 1368–1644.
• Melvyn Bragg, Mary Laven, Craig Clunas, Anne Gerritsen, "Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 Apr 2015. (Includes a reading list.)
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• East India Company, founded 1600.
• Melvyn Bragg, Huw Bowen, Linda Colley, Maria Misra, "The East India Company," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 26 Jun 2003.

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Henry VII:

• Henry VII of England (1457–1509), Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond 1457–1509; King of England 1485–1509.
• House of Tudor.
• Elizabeth of York (1466–1503), daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville; wife of Henry VII, and thus the first Tudor queen; mother of Henry VIII.
• Melvyn Bragg, John Guy, Christopher Haigh, Christine Carpenter, "The Tudor State," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 26 Oct 2000.
• Melvyn Bragg, Norman Davies, Andrew Marr, "The Nation State," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 14 Oct 1999.
• Cornish rebellion of 1497.

Henry VIII:

• Henry VIII of England (1491–1547), King of England 1509–1547.
• Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1473–1530), Lord Chancellor 1515–1529.
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• Treaty of London (1518).
• Field of the Cloth of Gold, summit and tournament field, June 1520.
• Siege of Vienna, 1529.
• Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558), Holy Roman Emperor 1519–1556; King of Castile and Aragon 1516–1556; head of the House of Habsburg.
• Francis I of France (1494–1547), King of France 1515–1547.
• Melvyn Bragg, Steven Gunn, John Guy, Penny Roberts, "The Field of the Cloth of Gold," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 6 Oct 2005.
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• Thomas More (1478–1535), Lord Chancellor 1529–1532.
• Thomas Cromwell (c.1485–1540), leading councillor of Henry VIII during the 1530s.
• Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473–1554), Lord High Treasurer 1522–1546.
• Acts of Supremacy, 1534, 1558.
• Pilgrimage of Grace, October 1536 – October 1537, widespread rising in the north.
• Privy Council of England.
• Star Chamber.

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Protestant Reformation:

• Erasmus (1466–1536), lived in England 14##–14##/150# and 1510–1515.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Eamon Duffy, Jill Kraye, "Erasmus," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 09 Feb 2012.
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• Protestant Reformation, Sixteenth Century.
• Martin Luther (1483–1546). Ninety-five Theses, 1517.
• Diet of Worms, 1521.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, David Bagchi, Charlotte Methuen, "The Diet of Worms," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 12 Oct 2006.
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• English Reformation, Sixteenth Century.
• English Reformation Parliament, 1529–1536.
• Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1530s–1540s.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Diane Purkiss, George Bernard, "The Dissolution of the Monasteries," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 27 Mar 2008.
• Michael Sherbrook's account of the spoliation of Roche, The Cistercians of Yorkshire.
• Roche Abbey, South Yorkshire.
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• William Tyndale (c.1494–1536).
• Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556), Archbishop of Canterbury 1533–1555.
• Book of Common Prayer, 1549, 1552.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Alexandra Walsham, Martin Palmer, "The Book of Common Prayer," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 17 Oct 2013.
• The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662. Edited by Brian Cummings. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
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• Richard Cox (c.1500–1581).
• John Knox (c.1513–1572).
• William Whittingham (c.1524–1579).
• Troubles at Frankfurt, mid-1550s, among British Marian exiles.
• Geneva Bible, 1557–1560.
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• John Foxe (1516/1517–1587). Foxe's Book of Martyrs (Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church), 1563.
• List of Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Justin Champion, Elizabeth Evenden, "Foxe's Book of Martyrs," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 Nov 2010.
• John Foxe. Foxe's Book of Martyrs: Select Narratives. Edited by John N. King. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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• Siege of Münster, February 1534 – June 1535.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Charlotte Methuen, Lucy Wooding, "The Siege of Munster," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 05 Nov 2009.
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• John Calvin (1509–1564).
• Calvinism.
• History of Geneva: Reformation.
• Melvyn Bragg, Justin Champion, Susan Hardman Moore, Diarmaid MacCulloch, "Calvinism," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 25 Feb 2010.
• Puritans.
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• Council of Trent, 1545–1563.
• Counter-Reformation.
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• French Wars of Religion, 1562–1598.
• Huguenots.
• Catholic League.
• House of Guise.
• St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, 23–24 August 1572.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Mark Greengrass, Penny Roberts, "St Bartholomew's Day Massacre," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 27 Nov 2003.
• Henry II of France (1519–1559), King of France 1547–1559.
• Francis II of France (1544–1560), King of France 1559–1560.
• Charles IX of France (1550–1574), King of France 1560–1574.
• Catherine de' Medici (1547–1589), Queen consort of France 1547–1559; Regent 1560–1563.
• Henry III of France (1551–1589), King of France 1574–1589.
• Henry IV of France (1553–1610), Henry of Navarre; King of Navarre 1572–1610; King of France 1589–1610.
• Margaret of Valois (1553–1615), daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici; married Henry of Navarre on 18 August 1572.
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• Witchcraft.
• European witchcraft.
• Witchcraft in Britain.
• Witchcraft Acts, 1542; 1563; Scottish 1563; 1604; 1649; 1735.
• Witch trials in the early modern period.
• Melvyn Bragg, Alison Rowlands, Lyndal Roper, Malcolm Gaskill, "Witchcraft," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 21 Oct 2004.
• Heinrich Kramer (c.1430–1505). Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches), 1487.
• Little Ice Age, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries; also dated as about 1300 to about 1850.
• James VI of Scotland (1566–1625). Daemonologie, 1597.
• Matthew Hopkins (c.1620–1647), "an English witch-hunter whose career flourished during the English Civil War".
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• Pelagius (c.360–418).
• Pelagianism: Reformation.
• Melvyn Bragg, Martin Palmer, Caroline Humfress, John Milbank, "The Pelagian Controversy," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 21 Apr 2011.
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• Spanish Inquisition, established 01 November 1478.
• Melvyn Bragg, John Edwards, Alexander Murray, Michael Alpert, "The Spanish Inquisition," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 22 Jun 2006.
• Albigensian Crusade or the Cathar Crusade, 1209–1229.
• Catharism.
• Historical revision of the Inquisition.
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• Melvyn Bragg, Justin Champion, David Wootton, Sarah Barber, "Toleration," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 20 May 2004.

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Art:

• Hans Holbein the Younger (c.1497–1543).
• List of paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger.
• Melvyn Bragg, Susan Foister, John Guy, Maria Hayward, "Holbein at the Tudor Court," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 15 Oct 2015. (Includes a reading list.)
• Danse Macabre.
• Hans Holbein. The Dance of Death. Commentary by Ulinka Rublack. London: Penguin Classics, 2016.
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• Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525/1530–1569). The Fight Between Carnival And Lent, 1559.
• Melvyn Bragg, Louise Milne, Jeanne Nuechterlein, Miri Rubin, "Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 15 Jan 2015. (Includes a reading list.)
• Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450–1516).
• Hieronymus Cock (1518–1570).
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• Book of Judith.
• Judith beheading Holofernes.
• Melvyn Bragg, Susan Foister, John Gash, Ela Nutu Hall, "Judith beheading Holofernes," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 14 Feb 2019. (Includes a reading list.)
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• Simon Thurley, "Painting, Patronage and Politics under the Tudors," Gresham College, 19 September 2018.
• Simon Thurley, "Architecture, Images and Image-Making under the Stuarts," Gresham College, 30 January 2019.
  (Despite the title the lecture includes some mention of the Tudor period.)
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• Artists of the Tudor court.
• Nicholas Hilliard (c.1547–1619).
• Isaac Oliver (c.1565–1617).
• Portraiture of Elizabeth I of England.

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Edward VI and Mary I:

• Edward VI of England (1537–1553), King of England 1547–1553.
• Kett's Rebellion, July – August, 1549.
• Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (c.1500–1552), Lord Protector of England 1547–1549.
• John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504–1553), Lord Protector of England 1550–1553.
• Lady Jane Grey (c.1537–1554), Lady Jane Dudley, wife of John Dudley's son.
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• Mary I of England (1516–1558), Mary Tudor, "Bloody Mary"; Queen of England 1553–1558.
• Stephen Gardiner (1483–1555), Lord Chancellor 1553–1555.
• English Reformation: Marian Restoration.
• Philip II: Relations with England and Ireland, King of England 1554–1558 as husband of Queen Mary.
• Wyatt's rebellion, 1554.
  Thomas Wyatt the Younger.
• List of Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation.

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Elizabeth I:

• Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603), Elizabeth Tudor; Queen of England 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Act of Uniformity 1558.
• Elizabethan Religious Settlement, 1559.
• William Cecil (1520–1598), Lord Burghley; Secretary of State 1550–1553 and 1558–1572; Lord High Treasurer 1572–1598.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Susan Doran, John Guy, "William Cecil," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 07 Mar 2019. (Includes a reading list.)
• Francis Walsingham (c.1532–1590).
• Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532–1588), a favourite of Elizabeth I.
• Christopher Hatton (1540–1591), a favourite of Elizabeth I.
• John Whitgift (c.1530–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury 1583–1604.
• Richard Hooker (1554–1600). Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, 1594; 1597.
• William Harrison (1534–1593). Description of England, 1577; 1587.
  • William Harrison. The Description of England. Edited by George Edelen. Washington, D.C.: The Folger Shakespeare Library; and New York: Dover Publications, 1994.
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• Philip II of Spain (1527–1598), Lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands 1555–1598; King of Spain 1556–1598; King of Portugal 1581–1598.
• Dutch Revolt against Roman Catholic Habsburg rule, 1568–1648.
• Eighty Years' War or Dutch War of Independence 1568–1648.
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• Battle of Lepanto, 07 October 1571.
• Holy League (1571).
• Territorial evolution of the Ottoman Empire.
• Ottoman Empire: Expansion and peak (1453–1566).
• Classical Age of the Ottoman Empire, 1453–1566.
• Transformation of the Ottoman Empire, 1566–1703.
• Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573).
• Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Kate Fleet, Noel Malcolm, "The Battle of Lepanto," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 12 Nov 2015. (Includes a reading list.)
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• Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), Mary Stuart; Queen of Scotland 1542–1567.
• Rising of the North, Northern Rebellion, 1569.
• Ridolfi plot, 1571.
• Melvyn Bragg, David Forsyth, Anna Groundwater, John Guy, "Mary, Queen of Scots," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 19 Jan 2017. (Includes a reading list.)
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• Peter Wentworth (1529–1596), a prominent Puritan leader in Parliament.
• History of the Puritans under Queen Elizabeth I.
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• Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604).
• Philip II: Relations with England and Ireland.
• Spanish Armada, 1588.
• Melvyn Bragg, Diane Purkiss, Mia Rodriguez-Salgado, Nicholas Rodger, "The Spanish Armada," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 07 Oct 2010.
• For more on the Spanish Armada see my post for Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1959; 2002).
• English Armada, 1589.
• Michael Portillo, "The English Armada," Things We Forgot to Remember, BBC Radio 4, 04 Dec 2011.
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• John Cabot (c.1450–c.1500).
• Sebastian Cabot (c.1474–1557).
• John Hawkins (1532–1595).
• Martin Frobisher (c.1535–1594).
• Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham (1536–1624), Lord High Admiral.
• Humphrey Gilbert (c.1539–1583).
• Francis Drake (c.1540–1596).
• Richard Grenville (1542–1591).
• Walter Raleigh (c.1552/1554–1618).
• Richard Hakluyt (1553–1616).
  • Richard Hakluyt. Voyages and Discoveries. (The Principall Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation.) Edited by Jack Beeching. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1972.
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• Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565–1601).
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• Tudor conquest of Ireland.
• Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563–1612), son of William Cecil; high official during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I.
• Edward Coke (1552–1634), Solicitor General 1592–1594; Speaker of the House of Commons 1593–1594; Attorney General 1594–1606; and higher offices during the reign of James I.
  • Edward Coke, Institutes of the Lawes of England, 1628–1644.
• Melvyn Bragg, John Guy, Clare Jackson, Helen Hackett, "The Death of Elizabeth I," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 15 Oct 2009.

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James I of England:

• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• James VI and I (1566–1625), King of Scotland as James VI 1567–1625; King of England and Ireland as James I 1603–1625.
• Jacobean era, 1603–1625.

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Renaissance, Literature, Philosophy, etc.:

• Renaissance, Fourteenth through Sixteenth Centuries.
• Italian Renaissance, Fourteenth through Sixteenth Centuries.
• Northern Renaissance, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
• Melvyn Bragg, Francis Ames-Lewis, Peter Burke, Evelyn Welch, "The Renaissance," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 08 Jun 2000.
• Jules Michelet (1798–1874), French historian.
• Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897). The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, 1860.
• Melvyn Bragg, Tom Healy, Charles Hope, Evelyn Welch, "Paganism in the Renaissance," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 Jun 2005.
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• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527).
• Melvyn Bragg, Quentin Skinner, Evelyn Welch, Lisa Jardine, "Machiavelli and the Italian City States," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 09 Dec 2004.
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• French Renaissance, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
• French Renaissance literature.
• Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592).
• Melvyn Bragg, David Wootton, Terence Cave, Felicity Green, "Montaigne," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 25 Apr 2013. (Includes a reading list.)
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• English Renaissance, Sixteenth Century.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English Renaissance theatre.
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• Tottel's Miscellany, 1557.
• Tottel's Miscellany: Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others. Edited by Amanda Holton and Tom MacFaul. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 2011.
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• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516/1517–1547).
• Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542).
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• Thomas Elyot (c.1490–1546).
• Roger Ascham (c.1515–1568).
• John Dee (1527–1608/1609).
• Thomas Norton (1532–1584).
• Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536–1608).
• Edmund Spenser (1552/1553–1599).
• John Florio (1553–1625).
• Philip Sidney (1554–1586).
• Thomas Kyd (1558–1594).
• Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593).
• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Thomas Nashe (1567–c.1601).
• Thomas Campion (1567–1620).
• John Donne (1572–1631).
• Ben Jonson (1572–1637).
• Thomas Middleton (1580–1627).
• John Webster (c.1580–c.1634).
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• Revenge play.
• Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Bate, Julie Sanders, Janet Clare, "Elizabethan Revenge," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 Jun 2009.
• Thomas Kyd (1558–1594). The Spanish Tragedy, 1582–1592.
• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
  • Titus Andronicus, 1588–1593.
  • Hamlet, 1599–1602.
• Thomas Middleton (1580–1627). The Revenger's Tragedy, 1606.
• Four Revenge Tragedies. Edited by Katharine Eisaman Maus. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
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• Three Revenge Tragedies. Edited by Gamini Salgado. London: Penguin Classics, 2004.
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• Five Revenge Tragedies. Edited by Emma Smith. London: Penguin Classics, 2012.
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• Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593).
• Melvyn Bragg, Katherine Duncan-Jones, Jonathan Bate, Emma Smith, "Marlowe," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 07 Jul 2005.
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• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Melvyn Bragg, Katherine Duncan-Jones, John Sutherland, Grace Ioppolo, "Shakespeare's Life," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 15 Mar 2001.
• Melvyn Bragg, Frank Kermode, Michael Bogdanov, Germaine Greer, "Shakespeare's Work," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 11 May 2000.
• Melvyn Bragg, Emma Smith, Gordon McMullan, Katherine Lewis, "Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 11 Oct 2018. (Includes a reading list.)
• Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Bate, Catherine Steel, Patrick Gray, "Is Shakespeare History? The Romans," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 Oct 2018. (Includes a reading list.)
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• Francis Bacon (1561–1626).
• Melvyn Bragg, Patricia Fara, Stephen Pumfrey, Rhodri Lewis, "Baconian Science," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 02 Apr 2009.

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Some Other BBC Radio 4 Series on Tudor / Elizabethan Topics:

• Discovery of England.
• This Sceptred Isle: Empire.
• Elizabethan Subjects.

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