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Queen Elizabeth I.

QuizHow well do you know the Elizabethan period?

Shakespeare: Past MasterWhat the Bard's most famous works say about history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Week fourThe Succession. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Week threePlots and Rebellions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Week twoElizabethan Daily Life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Week oneThe Elizabethan Court. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots.

Why Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots never met

Francis Drake: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Catherine of Braganza: the Merrie Monarch's forgotten queen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Priest's Hole, formerly a medieval sewer, beneath the kitchen in Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire.

A perilous game of hide and seekThe history of priest holes and hunters

Invisible ink & toad poison: tools of Elizabethan spycraft. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Forgotten women writers of the Renaissance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Picture of Owen Horsley

My life in historyDirector at the Royal Shakespeare Company. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tracy Borman at Hampton Court Palace

Explore Hampton Court Palace with Professor Tracy Borman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Shakespeare, depicted in a later image based on a contemporary portrait

Race, love & money: 8 Shakespeare plays that reveal the past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of supposed witches being beaten in front of King James I and VI

Why was King James VI and I obsessed with witch hunts?

Hiroyuki Sanada as Yoshii Toranaga in Shogun

Shōgun: release schedule: when is episode 8?

Elizabethans quiz – week four. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Succession, with Professor Tracy Borman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabethans quiz – week three. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Plots and Rebellions, with Professor Tracy Borman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth I

"Elizabeth was certainly no feminist": Tracy Borman on the Elizabethans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabethans quiz – week two. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Week Two: Elizabethan Daily Life, with Professor Tracy Borman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A composite of Elizabethan images

The Elizabethan era: your guide to life during the 'Golden Age'

James VI and I: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Week One: The Elizabethan court, with Professor Tracy Borman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabethans quiz - week one. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth I in procession with her courtiers, c1600-1603 (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Elizabeth I's accession day celebrations. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sir Walter Raleigh, a portrait of the great favourite of Queen Elizabeth I

Q&AWhy was Sir Walter Raleigh executed?