Mary, Queen of Scots (In Our Time)
1561 · Resource
In a programme first broadcast in 2017, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Mary, Queen of Scots, who had potential to be one of the most powerful rulers in Europe, yet she was also one of the most vulnerable. In France, when she was the teenage bride to their future king, she was seen as rightful heir to the thrones of England and Ireland, as wel
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- The Reformation (1517)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Edo period (1603)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)