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Episode 4Was Elizabeth I's reign really a 'golden age'?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 3Elizabeth’s enemies: plots, rivals and the Spanish Armada. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 2Elizabeth I: a woman in a man’s world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 1Young Elizabeth I: the making of a queen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 2Winston Churchill: How to use dynamism to beat the odds. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Bess of Hardwick: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 1Elizabeth I: The power of delaying decisions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A colourised nineteenth-century engraving of William Shakespeare shows the playwright seated with one hand resting on a human skull and the other beside a flowering plant and a large book. A coat of arms appears in the upper left corner.

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Was Shakespeare a secret political radical? One play's hidden symbols reveal the truth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A delicate eighteenth-century pencil drawing shows Anne Hathaway in a simple cap and ruffled collar, facing slightly to the left against a plain background.

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Who was the real Agnes Shakespeare? The true story behind Hamnet's leading lady

A nineteenth-century painting depicts William Shakespeare standing indoors, holding an open book aloft as if reading aloud. One hand rests on a table beside him, while a carved chair and draped curtain frame the scene.

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Is Hamnet based on a true story? The real history behind the Shakespeare drama

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How Tudor London inspired literary genius. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Season 6Elizabeth I

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I in an ornate gown with elaborate headdress, ruffled collar, and symbolic decorations.

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What did Elizabeth I really think about Anne Boleyn? These secret symbols might unlock the truth

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Beyond the podcastElizabeth I

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Shakespeare didn't love his wife and he abandoned his family to move to London: are these 13 rumours about the playwright true?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Why did Maggie O'Farrell write about Shakespeare's son?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jessie Buckley plays Anne (Agnes) Hathaway

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What happened to Shakespeare's daughters? A guide to the playwright's family life and descendants

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Procrastinate like Elizabeth I. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Christopher Marlowe: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Who stole the Tudor crown?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This late 16th-century portrait by John de Critz depicts Sir Francis Walsingham (c.1532–1590), Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster. A shrewd diplomat and master of espionage, Walsingham built the intelligence network that helped safeguard the Tudor state from plots and foreign threats.

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Elizabeth I’s shadowy spy network was tasked with uncovering secret conspiracies. Here’s what it found

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Crystal balls & contacting angels: predicting the future in early modern England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This 1605 print depicts Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot, a failed Catholic scheme to blow up the Houses of Parliament during the state opening by King James I.

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420 years ago, a deadly conspiracy to kill Britain’s king nearly succeeded. What if it had worked?

This detailed portrait captures a high-ranking woman of the Tudor court, her rich attire and elaborate jewellery reflecting the wealth and status of England’s ruling elite.

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This unassuming accessory gave the poor of Tudor England a vital way to survive

Two men in historical clothing crouch in a small boat on a river, one pouring from a barrel while the other gestures urgently toward him, with distant buildings and ships in the background

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Who laid the fuse for the Gunpowder Plot?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting shows a topless woman sitting up in bed, holding her hand against the face of the man leaning over her

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What did the Tudors think was ‘good’ sex? These tips and tricks were key to relationships in the 16th century

Two green hearts are sideways, facing each other. In each there is an image: one has a painting of Elizabeth I and the other has a painting of the Duke of Anjou

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The Virgin Queen? Elizabeth I's forbidden love. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration showing Queen Elizabeth I. Her body has been replaced with an egg timer and her facial expression is looking worried.

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Master the art of procrastination, with the help of the Virgin Queen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

William Shakespeare. (Photo by Getty/Bridgeman)

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Shakespeare’s 'lost years': what do we know about this secretive chapter of the bard's life?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroJoan Armatrading chooses Charles Dickens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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