Elizabeth I was crowned in 1559

Elizabeth I was crowned at Westminster Abbey on this day in 1559. English was used for the first time in the previously all Latin coronation service. Find more information here.

The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England

Ian Mortimer takes us back to Elizabethan England and reveals, in vivid detail, a living, breathing Tudor world in the Golden Age. Viewers learn how ordinary Tudor housewives turned plants into medicine, how the middle classes kept themselves clean using linen cloths, how the poor made pottage, how cooks of the rich devised recipes for new ingredients, and how Tudors learned to read and write. Two incredible episodes by BBC.