Elizabethan Society Elizabethan Government Elizabeth's Background Challenges of the Virgin Queen Challenges from Home and Abroad 1 Challenges from Home and Abroad 2

The Need for a Religious Settlement Elizabeth's Religious Settlement The Church of England and its role in society

The nature and extent of the Puritan challenge The nature and extent of the Catholic challenge The Catholic Challenge Abroad

Mary, Queen of Scots Relations between Elizabeth and Mary, 1568 - 1569

The Revolt of the Northern Earls 1569 - 1570 - Causes The Revolt of the Northern Earls 1569 - 1570 - Events The Revolt of the Northern Earls 1569 - 1570 - Consequences Elizabeth and the Catholic Threat 1570 - 1588 The Ridolfi, Throckmorton and Babington plots. Mary, Queen of Scots' execution in 1587.

Elizabeth's Foreign Policy The Impact of Sir Francis Drake England, Spain and the Netherlands, Dilemma (Part 1) England, Spain and the Netherlands, Complications (Part 2)

English involvement in the Netherlands and Robert Dudley. Drake and the raid on Cadiz

Armada - the Spanish Plan Armada - the English Victory Armada - reasons for the Spanish defeat

Education - Attitudes Education - Schools Sports, pastimes and the theatre

Reasons for the increase in poverty and vagabondage. Changing attitudes to poverty Changing policies to poverty

The World of Elizabethan Exploration Reasons for Elizabethan Exploration The Technology of Elizabethan Exploration

Colonisation and Sir Walter Raleigh The Virginia Project The Virginia Project - Failure The Virginia Project - Significance