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100 years of splendour and squalor
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Beginning with the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, and ending with the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I, in 1603, this is a vivid account of a hugely eventful and contradictory age. Here is life in London and in the country, the costumes, travel, food and medicine, the sports and pastimes, and the wonderful flowering of English drama, juxtaposed with the stultifying narrowness of peasant life, the harsh treatment of heretics and traitors, and the misery of the plague. An astonishing picture of an England of great beauty and violence, achievement and despair.
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