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History’s greatest mysteriesThe lost colony of Roanoke Island. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The arrival of Sir Walter Raleigh in Virginia

What happened to the lost colony of Roanoke Island?

The ship ‘Jesus of Lübeck’ was used in John Hawkins’ infamous early slaving voyages, some of which were sponsored by Elizabeth I. (Image by Alamy)

Were there slaves in Elizabethan England?

Elizabeth I arrives in Tilbury

The Spanish Armada: one of history’s biggest fibs?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anne Boleyn (left) and her daughter, Elizabeth I. (Photos by Getty Images)

What did Elizabeth I think of her mother, Anne Boleyn? Historian Tracy Borman explains

Globe Theatre illustration

The Globe theatre fire of 1613: when Shakespeare’s playhouse burned down

Amy Robsart and the Earl of Leicester

Amy Robsart: a Tudor tragedy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532–88) an English nobleman. Dated 16th century. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Robert Dudley: Queen Elizabeth I's great love

Francis Drake portrait

Francis Drake’s forgotten role in the English slave trade

Queen Victoria on an ivory throne

Top 11 monarchs in British history

The Tudors, everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of the young Elizabeth I. (Photo by Art Collection 2/Alamy Stock Photo)

Elizabeth I's personality: the unfathomable queen

How William Shakespeare shaped America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Shakespeare and America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Royal women podcast episodes

Portrait of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach, 1543. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Europe's holy war: how the Reformation convulsed a continent

Queen Elizabeth I

"All unperfect and incorrect”: Tracy Borman on the discovery of an Elizabethan gem. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

James VI and I depicted in Parliament, c1605

Queen Elizabeth I’s ‘Golden Speech’ and 5 more key moments in the history of crown and parliament. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of pirate John Ward

Pirate John Ward: the real Captain Jack Sparrow

The daughter and great-niece of Henry VIII respectively, Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots didn't feel strong family ties when it came to their relationship. (Photo by Getty Images)

Queens at war: Elizabeth I vs Mary, Queen of Scots. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The portrait of Queen Elizabeth I known as the Ditchley portrait

What did Queen Elizabeth I really look like at 60?

Henri III: Elizabeth I’s unlikely ally. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 16th-century portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Mary, Queen of Scots: the real history behind the film

Taxing the rich to feed the poor in the 17th century: the world's first welfare state. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh

Q&ADid Sir Walter Ralegh really lay down his cloak for Elizabeth I?

A 16th-century woodcut by Albrecht Dürer entitled 'The true and false apostles of Christ'. As the Reformation recast Europe's spiritual landscape, many believers fretted that their religion no longer felt true to them. (Photo by Alamy)

The fury that fuelled the rise of atheism. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Perkin Warbeck, an imposter and pretender to the English throne, being humiliated in the stocks before his execution in 1499. Warbeck was used by Henry VII’s Yorkist enemies in an unsuccessful plot to threaten the new Tudor dynasty. (Getty Images)

Imposters in history: 16 famous con-artists and pretenders. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pocket-sized paintings: Elizabethans in miniature. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 19th-century portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Elizabeth I’s love life: was she really a ‘Virgin Queen’?