{"id":657,"date":"2019-03-08T10:16:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T10:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/?p=657"},"modified":"2019-03-08T10:16:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T10:16:54","slug":"enrichment-something-to-listen-to-in-our-time-william-cecil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/2019\/03\/08\/enrichment-something-to-listen-to-in-our-time-william-cecil\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrichment &#8211; Something to listen to. In Our Time &#8211; William Cecil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All,<\/p>\n<p>Something rather special for you today.\u00a0If you click\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m0002zq6\">here<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>you will get to last night\u2019s In Our Time on Radio 4. In it,\u00a0Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact on the British Isles of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, the most poweful man in the court of Elizabeth I. He was both praised and attacked for his flexibility, adapting to the reigns of Protestant and Catholic monarchs and, under Elizabeth, his goal was to make England strong, stable and secure from attack from its neighbours. He sought control over Ireland and persuaded Elizabeth that Mary Queen of Scots must die, yet often counselled peace rather than war in the interests of prosperity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/p071h3zf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1771\" src=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/p071h3zf.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/p071h3zf.jpg 640w, http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/p071h3zf-300x169.jpg 300w\" alt=\"p071h3zf\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Diarmaid MacCulloch<br \/>\nProfessor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford<\/li>\n<li>Susan Doran<br \/>\nProfessor of Early Modern British History at the University of Oxford<\/li>\n<li>John Guy<br \/>\nFellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy,<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kydd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All, Something rather special for you today.\u00a0If you click\u00a0here\u00a0you will get to last night\u2019s In Our Time on Radio 4. In it,\u00a0Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact on the British Isles of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, the most &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/2019\/03\/08\/enrichment-something-to-listen-to-in-our-time-william-cecil\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enrichment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G99s-aB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}