Epox!

Hello and welcome back to epochs.

If we remember last time I'd finally finished, finally finished the story all about Magellan.

Now I thought I'd do a one-off pallet cleanser before I change entirely to a completely different epoch in history.

But I thought where I've spoken quite a lot about the Spanish and the Portuguese

sailors and explorers and adventures, I thought, well, it's only really right that I speak about

an English one. So today I'm going to try and make it a one off episode. So it will be a bit of an

overview, a one off episode all about Sir Walter Riley.

So, you know, just to give the English perspective on these things a little bit.

So, okay, let's talk about that.

I couldn't just leave you with letting people think that the Spanish and Portuguese were the only ones that do daring adventures on the high seas in the late Middle Ages in the 16th century.

There was many, there was Frenchmen and Englishmen and Dutchmen that did all that sort of thing, but obviously being an Englishman, I want to keep

up the end and talk a bit about Sir Walter Riley. So one of the first things to say is it's a bit

later than Magellan. Okay, so Magellan's, if you remember, the

Magellan voyage was in the 1520s, and the events of Sir Walter Riley's life is much later

in the 16th century, like in the 1570s, 80s, 90s, and even into the very beginning of

the 17th century, the 1600s. So it's a bit later. So before I actually dive in and talk all about

just the life and career of Riley himself, I need to give you just a little bit of an overview

of what happened since the age of Magellan. And as I say, I'm going to try and pack all this

into one episode. So today it will be, you know, something of an overview,

rather than a sort of super deep dive as the Magellan thing had done. I can't do that every time.

In fact, it probably wouldn't be advisable. So for this one, a lot had happened in the next

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