#32 Queen Elizabeth I: What You Need To Know!

The History of the Americans

Jack Henneman

History

4.9 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Queen Elizabeth I, who came to power at the impossibly young age of 25 in 1558, was of critical importance to the English project in North America, and therefore to the history of the Americans. She would prove to be an extraordinarily adept leader who would fend off enemies to English sovereignty and Protestantism, both at home and abroad, for the next 44 years. In this episode we talk about Elizabeth the person, and William Cecil, her most important advisor for most of her long reign. The two of them, along with John Dee, other intellectuals and courtiers, English merchant adventurers, and the more successful pirates and privateers, invented imperial England, and defended her against enormous geopolitical and religious threats from Europe, particularly Philip II’s Spanish empire. Eventually, they underwrote the first English settlements in the lands now making up the United States.

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Reference for this episode

Alison Weir, The Life of Elizabeth I

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0:00.0	Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast, episode 32.
0:11.0	I'm your host, Jack Heneman.
0:12.8	Today's episode is a backgrounder on Queen Elizabeth I, the surprising and brilliant queen,
0:19.2	without whom the United States would, in all likelihood, be a very different place if it existed at all.
0:28.2	I'm recording this episode on July 27, 2021, on a rainy Adirondack afternoon and a secure undisclosed location just outside Tupper Lake, New York.
0:41.6	Before we jump into the history bit, a couple of housekeeping matters.
0:46.3	We crossed 30,000 aggregate listens a couple of days back, which is spectacular.
0:52.0	Thank you guys for playing along and tell your friends when you think of it,
0:55.7	especially on your social media platform of choice.
0:59.7	Also, I appeared as a podcast guest for the first time ever, for me,
1:05.8	in the 23rd episode of Third Act with Liz Tencombe.
1:15.2	Third Act is a very nicely done podcast about things people do after they've done their first things, such as had a career and raising a family and such.
1:21.7	Liz recorded my interview in April and managed to edit my word salad into something approximating
1:27.2	coherence.
1:29.0	I talk about this podcast and my thoughts on the teaching of history, as well as my
1:34.4	background and career, which I suppose of the first two acts. You can find third act with
1:40.1	Liz Tinkum, wherever you listen to podcasts, I'll put a link in the show notes.
1:45.3	Thank you, Liz.
1:47.1	This episode, Queen Elizabeth I first, what you need to know, is a bit of a cheat.
1:54.1	As I've been realizing that Elizabeth is foundational to the American story, I've been sorting
1:59.2	out how to fit her in.
2:01.2	Then I read a good chunk of Alison Weir's biography, The Life of Elizabeth I First,
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