The England of Elizabeth was a nation under threat. This book challenges stale notions about espionage in Renasissance England and presents complex material so that the reign of Elizabeth I is shown in a compellingly light.

INVISIBLE POWER: ELIZABETHAN SECRET SERVICES, 1570-1603 (ILLUSTRATED HISTORY PAPERBACKS)

History

Alan Haynes

Europe

Sutton Publishing

Sexual behavior in the Elizabethan age is approached here through the literature and literary personalities of the period. Alan Haynes builds up a picture of the sexual experiences of Elizabethans from courtiers to maids of honor and from citizens and their wives to drabs and pimps.

Sex in Elizabethan England

Self-Help

Sutton Pub Ltd

An ILLUSTRATED HISTORY PAPERBACK which provides an insight into the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and examines why Guy Fawkes was involved in a Catholic conspiracy to kill the royal family and government. First published in 1994.

The Gunpowder Plot

Religion & Spirituality

Sutton Publishing+ltd

For the greater part of her reign, Elizabeth I had three very gifted, and very different men to support her. One of these was the haunted intellectual, Sir Francis Walsingham. During the brief reign of the Queen Mary, Walsingham was a Protestant exile in Italy. Returning home when Elizabeth assumed the throne, from 1570 he became a diplomat to the arch-pragmatist Queen. He was often troubled by her inconsistent policy decisions and for allowing the exile in England of Mary Queen of Scots. His triumph came in 1587 when Mary was at last beheaded after the cunning defeat of the Babington plot. A powerful, if enigmatic figure, loathed by his adversaries and deeply admired by friends and allies, Walsingham became the master coordinator of a feared pan-European spy network. His spies underpinned his organization of national resistance to the Spanish Armada, but devotion and duty to Elizabeth was costly and Walsingham died two years later. Alan Haynes s new book restores a great Elizabethan to his rightful place in history. It will appeal to anyone interested in matters of secrecy, betrayal, loyalty, and individual freedom."

Walsingham

In the first general study of the plot in its historical context for many years, Alan Haynes uncovers the truth about this Catholic conspiracy. Who was Guy Fawkes and how did he come to be below the chamber of the House of Lords in the first hour of 5 November 1605? What desperation drove those involved to plan a horrific massacre of the Protestant royal family and government? Haynes's probing analysis offers the clearest, most balanced view yet of often conflicting evidence, as he disentangles the threads of disharmony, intrigue, betrayal, terror and retribution. This enthralling book will grip the general reader, while the scope of its detailed research will require historians of the period to consider again the commanding importance of the plot throughout the seventeenth century.

The History Press

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Sex in Elizabethan England

The Gunpowder Plot

Walsingham

The Gunpowder Plot