Elizabethan England, c1568–1603

Option BC of the AQA GCSE History course.

8 pages of detailed notes on:

• Elizabeth and her court

• Privy council

• Parliament

• Golden Age

• Elizabethan theatres

• Sailors

• Elizabeth

• Religion

• Marriage

• Main reasons for the poor - increased population, changes in agriculture, actions of monarchs.

• Mary queen of Scots

• Northern rebellion, 1569

• Ridolfi plot, 1571

• Essex in Ireland and his return to England

• Essex rebellion