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The LibraryThe Elizabethan big society

Mystery and drama with the Romans and the Elizabethans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabethan adventurer, courtier, navigator and historian Sir Walter Ralegh – "a gorgeous, larger than life figure". Unfortunately, many of his peers weren't impressed by his good looks, and saw instead an arrogant man, blind to his own weaknesses. (Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The LibraryWalter Ralegh: the heroic traitor

The plague, Sir Walter Ralegh and Jerusalem. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rebellion and terrorism. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth I: Fortune’s Bastard?

Inside Pompeii and a date with Elizabeth I. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Robert Burns and Francis Bacon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of William I of Orange. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Death from the shadows: the murder of William the Silent