The positivist historian Edward Spencer Beesly surveys Elizabeth’s long life from her birth in 1533 through the religious settlement, foreign relations, Mary Queen of Scots, aristocratic plots, the papal attack, the Netherlands, the Armada war and her last years, treating her life as the history of England for forty-five years.
A crisp, independent-minded short biography from the Twelve English Statesmen series. Download the free EPUB.