Exploration and discovery Raleigh and Virginia Something you want to spend longer on Elizabeth’s accession The problem of the poor The Religious Settlement Education and leisure Mary Queen of Scots Plots and revolts at home The Armada War with Spain Relations with Spain

Mary Queen of Scots Something you want to spend longer on Government in 1558 Society in 1558 The Puritan challenge Elizabeth’s legitimacy Enforcing the settlement Gender and marriage Financial weaknesses Religious settlement Religious divisions The threat from France

The Armada Something you want to spend longer on The Revolt of the Northern Earls, 1569 The Ridolfi plot Outbreak of war with Spain The Throckmorton plot The Netherlands The Babington plot Execution of Mary Queen of Scots Commercial rivalry/Drake/privateers Elizabeth’s foreign policy aims Walsingham’s use of spies