Enrichment – something to listen to. In Our Time – William Cecil

All,

Something rather special for you today. If you click here you will get to last night’s In Our Time on Radio 4. In it, Melvyn 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.

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With;

  • Diarmaid MacCulloch
    Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford
  • Susan Doran
    Professor of Early Modern British History at the University of Oxford
  • John Guy
    Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge

Enjoy,

Mr Kydd.

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