Considered the golden age of English history, the Elizabethan era saw a flowering of British culture in many different areas. Spanning the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, this period saw unprecedented peace and prosperity in England, especially when contrasted with the times just before and after it....
Anne Boleyn great disappointment and sorrow to the King, the Lady herself and to others of her party.’ But for the next two years, Henry VIII was willing to hope for a son to join this healthy daughter.
Question 11/12 The heart has been linked with love at least as far back as: The Middle Ages Elizabethan times The '60sQuestion 12/12 Be careful of airport security machines if you have a pacemaker. True FalseSourcesUpdate History Share Save View privacy policy, copyright and trust info FEATU...
Status symbols can come from strange inspiration sometimes. In Elizabethan times, sugar was rare, and only available to the wealthy. The Queen loved her sweets, and there are stories that her teeth were so decayed that she was hard to understand. This led to a trend where women would blacke...
It might seem hard to believe, but all the way back in Elizabethan England people had wristwatches! Or rather, very wealthy people like the queen did. Watches were a relatively modern invention at the time, and lots of people still used the sun to tell the time. Described as an 'arm ...
The Elizabethan aristocracy, when in London, resided on the Strand. If you could afford to live in one of the former bishop’s palaces between the street called The Strand and the bank of the Thames (and rebuild them) you had definitely arrived at the top. ...
In Elizabethan times, the Court Leet of the Manor of Manchester entrusted the town with several responsibilities, one of which was “playing morning and evening together, as others had before done.” It was decreed in 1603 that “the aforementioned waits should hereafter be received to play musi...
In the modern era of celebrity worship, many people tend to think that scandals are a relatively new phenomenon. Along with that is the idea that in Elizabethan times and even lasting until the 1950s, that a scandal could very well of developed just from two people looking at each other ...
Southwark, “the Borough”, became known for its monasteries, hospitals, inns, fairs, pleasure houses, and great theaters of Elizabethan London—the Rose (1587), the Swan (1595), and the world-famous Globe (1599).THE VALLEY OF THAMES
Ch 5. The Fall of the Roman Empire Ch 6. The Dark Ages Ch 7. The Early Middle Ages Ch 8. The Medieval Warm Period Ch 9. The High Middle Ages Ch 10. The Late Middle Ages Ch 11. The Renaissance Ch 12. The Age of Exploration Ch 13. The Reformation Ch 14. The Elizabethan Era ...