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Preparing Contents for your exams
Timeline 6
Chapter 1 Queen, government and religion,
1558-69 8
1.1 The situation on Elizabeth’s accession 9
1.2 The ‘settlement’ of religion 18
1.3 Challenge to the religious settlement 26
1.4 The problem of Mary, Queen of Scots 32
Recap page 37
Writing Historically 38
Chapter 2 Challenges to Elizabeth at home
and abroad, 1569-88 40
2.1 Plots and revolts at home 41
2.2 Relations with Spain 48
2.3 Outbreak of war with Spain, 1585-88 54
2.4 The Armada 58
Recap page 64
Writing Historically 65
Chapter 3 Elizabethan society in the Age of
Exploration, 1558-88 67
3.1 Education and leisure 68
3.2 The problem of the poor 74
3.3 Exploration and voyages of discovery 80
3.4 Raleigh and Virginia 85
Recap page 89
Writing Historically 90
Early Elizabethan England, 1558–1588:
Preparing for your exam 92
Answers 98
Index 99
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