The Elizabethan era in the 16th century was one of adventure, intrigue, personalities, plots and power struggles. At the centre was Queen Elizabeth I, ‘The Virgin Queen’ and the latter part of ...

Although it wasn’t until after the Elizabethan era that England became one of the world’s biggest slave trading nations, Elizabeth I did profit from the trade in enslaved people because of her ...

But if this was not an age - and who are we to contradict her? - then it was an era, the Elizabethan Era. Over decades of wrenching change, she was constancy, for a largely still-conservative country.