A History of Britain S01E07 · The Body of the Queen (1558 - 1603)

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This is the story of two queens - Elizabeth I the consummate politician and Mary Queen of Scots the Catholic mother. It is also the story of the birth of a nation.

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1. 1 1. Beginnings (3100 BC - 1000 AD)2000-09-30 · 1h 0mSimon Schama starts his story in the Stone Age village of Skara Brae, Orkney. Over the next four thousand years Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Christian missionaries arrive, fig
2. 2 2. Conquest! (1000 - 1087)2000-10-07 · 1h 0m1066 is not the best remembered date in British history for nothing. In the space of nine hours whilst the Battle of Hastings raged, everything changed. Anglo-Saxon England became
3. 3 3. Dynasty (1087 - 1216)2000-10-14 · 1h 0mThere is no saga more powerful than that of the warring dynasty - domineering father, beautiful, scheming mother and squabbling, murderous sons and daughters, (particularly the nie
4. 4 4. Nations (1216 - 1348)2000-10-21 · 1h 0mNations is the epic account of how the nations of Britain emerged from under the hammer of England's "Longshanks" King Edward I, with a sense of who and what they were, which endur
5. 5 5. King Death (1348 - 1500)2000-10-28 · 1h 0mIt took only six years for the plague to ravage the British Isles. Its impact was to last for generations. But from the ashes of this trauma an unexpected and unique class of Engli
6. 6 6. Burning Convictions (1500 - 1558)2000-11-04 · 1h 0mHere Simon Schama charts the upheaval caused as a country renowned for its piety, whose king styled himself Defender of the Faith, turns into one of the most aggressive proponents
7. 7 7. The Body of the Queen (1558 - 1603)2000-11-11 · 1h 0mThis is the story of two queens - Elizabeth I the consummate politician and Mary Queen of Scots the Catholic mother. It is also the story of the birth of a nation.