1603
Author : Christopher Lee
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Christopher Lee
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Godfrey Davies
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780198217046
Author : Chris Cook
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 1980-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 134902676X
Author : Christopher Lee
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1466864508
1603 was the year that Queen Elizabeth I, the last of the Tudors, died. Her cousin, Robert Carey, immediately rode like a demon to Scotland to take the news to James VI. The cataclysmic time of the Stuart monarchy had come and the son of Mary Queen of Scots left Edinburgh for London to claim his throne as James I of England. Diaries and notes written in 1603 describe how a resurgence of the plague killed nearly 40,000 people. Priests blamed the sins of the people for the pestilence, witches were strangled and burned and plotters strung up on gate tops. But not all was gloom and violence. From a ship's log we learn of the first precious cargoes of pepper arriving from the East Indies after the establishment of a new spice route; Shakespeare was finishing Othello and Ben Jonson wrote furiously to please a nation thirsting for entertainment. 1603 was one of the most important and interesting years in British history. In 1603: The Death of Queen Elizabeth I, the Return of the Black Plague, the Rise of Shakespeare, Piracy, Witchcraft, and the Birth of the Stuart Era, Christopher Lee, acclaimed author of This Sceptred Isle, unfolds its story from first-hand accounts and original documents to mirror the seminal year in which Britain moved from Tudor medievalism towards the wars, republicanism and regicide that lay ahead.
Author : T C Smout
Publisher : Proceedings of the British Aca
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 19,1 MB
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197263303
In 1603, England and Scotland came together and Great Britain was created. But how did this union last when so many others in Europe have failed? This volume provides an account of two nations who have often differed, remained very distinct and yet have achieved endurance in European terms.
Author : Ken Powell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 1977-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1349019135
Author : David Ferriby
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1471837505
Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A-level Subject: History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 AQA approved Enhance and expand your students' knowledge and understanding of their AQA breadth study through expert narrative, progressive skills development and bespoke essays from leading historians on key debates. - Builds students' understanding of the events and issues of the period with authoritative, well-researched narrative that covers the specification content - Introduces the key concepts of change, continuity, cause and consequence, encouraging students to make comparisons across time as they advance through the course - Improves students' skills in tackling interpretation questions and essay writing by providing clear guidance and practice activities - Boosts students' interpretative skills and interest in history through extended reading opportunities consisting of specially commissioned essays from practising historians on relevant debates - Cements understanding of the broad issues underpinning the period with overviews of the key questions, end-of-chapter summaries and diagrams that double up as handy revision aids The Tudors: England 1485-1603 A revised edition of Access to History: An Introduction to Tudor England 1485-1603, this title explores the consolidation of the Tudor Dynasty under Henry VII and Henry VIII, the years of instability and religious turmoil in the mid-Tudor period and the period of relative stability during Elizabeth I's reign. It considers breadth issues of change, continuity, cause and consequence in this period through examining key questions on themes such as power, religion, opposition, relations with foreign powers and the impact of key individuals.
Author : David Lawrence Smith
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 1998-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780631194026
This is a survey of a seminal and intensely controversial period in British history, from the union of the Crowns of England and Scotland in 1603 to the union of the Kingdoms in 1707. The book explores the intersecting histories of the Stuart monarchies and considers how events in each nation were shaped by being part of a multiple kingdom as well as by their own internal dynamics. Throughout, special attention is given to the personalities and political style of successive rulers. Their role in precipitating two revolutions is examined against the background of longer term constitutional, religious and social themes. In particular, the parallels between James I and Charles II, and between Charles I and James II, are clearly drawn out.
Author : James I (King of England)
Publisher : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780969751267
Author : Simon Schama
Publisher : Random House
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1847920136
'Great Britain? What was that?' asks Simon Schama at the start of this, the second book of his epic three-volume journey into Britain's past. The answer emerges in The British Wars, a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and stratum of British life, faith and thought from 1603 to 1776. Travelling up and down the country and across three continents, Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries. 'The British wars began on the morning on July 23 1637, and the first missiles launched were stools. They flew down the nave of St Giles's Cathedral in Edinburgh and their targets were the Dean and the Bishop...' The first round of the wars had been fired, and fired on grounds of faith. Over the next 200 years, other battles would rage on other battlegrounds - both at home and abroad, on sea and on land, up and down the length of burgeoning Britain, across Europe, America and India. Most would be wars of faith - waged on wide-ranging grounds of political or religious conviction. But as wars of religious passions gave way to campaigns for profit, the British people did come together in the imperial enterprise of 'Britannia Incorporated'. The story of that great alteration is a story of revolution and reaction, inspiration and disenchantment, of progress and catastrophe, and Schama's evocative narrative brings it vividly to life. 'Great Britain? What was that?' Whatever it was, it was a place of dynamic and dramatic change, the shifting patterns of which are skilfully captured on Schama's rich and teeming tapestry of The British Wars.