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Eliza Maher, BA History

Eliza MaherElizabethan government: the face of compromise

From smallpox to menopause, impending civil war to impending world war, Elizabeth I’s troubles centred upon diametrically opposed religious convictions guaranteed with blood. However, her government miraculously resolved crisis after crisis with poise. Was Elizabeth really the serene, untouchable Virgin Queen of legend? Was she a brilliant mind and a woman-before-her-time or was she manipulated by the patriarchs of her government?

The Tudors may have been done to death by your GCSE history teacher with dates clogging his arteries, but the answers may be simpler than anyone dare write in an exam paper. Come and find out!