England under Elizabeth I: A time of war & plague, politics & rebellion, personal heroism & religious fanaticism. When if you were born poor you stayed poor, & the thumbscrews & the rack could be the grim prelude to the executioner's block. But it was also an age that encouraged literary genius, global exploration, & timeless beauty. ...

Tells the story of the Elizabethan Age. Apart from the complex character of the Virgin Queen herself, this title lets us follow the story of Francis Drake & political intriguers like William Cecil & Francis Walsingham, so important to a monarch who of ...

Like its acclaimed companion volumes, Restoration London, Dr Johnson's London & Victorian London, this book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the practical details of everyday life so often ignored in conventional history books.

It begins with the River Thames, the lifeblood of Elizabethan London, before turning to the streets & the traffic in them. Liza Picard surveys building methods & shows us the interior decor of the rich & the not-so-rich, & what they were likely to be growing in their gardens. Then the Londoners of the time take the stage, in all their amazing finery. Plague, smallpox & other diseases afflicted them. But food & drink, sex & marriage & family life provided comfort. Cares could be forgotten in a playhouse or the bull-baiting of bear-baiting rings, or watching a good cockfight.

Liza Picard's wonderfully skilful & vivid evocation of the London of Elizabeth I enables us to share the delights, as well as the horrors, of the everyday lives of our sixteenth-century ancestors.

This paperback book has 390 pages & measures: 19.8 x 13 x 2.4cm





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The first biography of Lettice Knollys, one of the most prominent women of the Elizabethan era.

Cousin to Elizabeth I
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Francis Walsingham was the first spymaster in the modern sense. His methods anticipated those of MI5 & MI6 & even those of the KGB. He maintained a network of spies across Europe, including double-agents at the highest level in Rome & Spain
- the sworn enemies of Queen Elizabeth & her Protestant regime. His entrapment of Mary Queen of Scots is a classic intelligence operation that resulted in her execution. As Robert Hutchinson reveals, his cypher experts ability to intercept other peoples secret messages & his brilliant forged letters made him a fearsome champion of the young Elizabeth. Yet even this machiavellian schemer eventually fell foul of Elizabeth as her confidence grew (and judgement faded). The rise & fall of Sir Francis Walsingham is a Tudor epic, vividly narrated by a historian with unique access to the surviving documentary evidence.
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Ella is trying to put the past behind her… but the past won’t always stay hidden.

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Ellie, the little elephant, has a secret wish. She wants to be a real fairy & even has her own pair of home-made fairy wings. Everyday, Ellie imagines she is in a world full of sparkling fairy magic & adventure. Come & join Ellie in this enchanting picture book & you can have fairy fun too! ...

Still only a teenager, Paralympic swimmer Ellie Simmonds has already swum in the World Championships, beaten a world record holder & received an MBE. Find out Ellies story of developing her passion for swimming, living with Achondroplasia Dwarfism & her future ambitions in her autobiography, full of personal photos from her career so far. ? Pearl/ Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme & longer chapter books. ? Text type: An autobiography. ? Curriculum links: P.E: Outdoor & adventurous activities. ...