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This resource is a 27 slide set of fact sheets for each lesson/topic following the GCSE History topic - Early Elizabethan England (Edexcel specification). The fact sheets can be used as revision resources or to accompany the teaching of the Early Elizabethan England as knowledge organisers.

Key Topic 1

• Fact Sheet 1: Elizabethan Society & Government
• Fact Sheet 2: Early Challenges to Elizabeth I
• Fact Sheet 3: Challenges to Elizabeth from Abroad
• Fact Sheet 4: Religious Divisions in Eliazbethan England
• Fact Sheet 5: Elizabeth I’s Religious Settlement
• Fact Sheet 6: The Role of the Church in Elizabethan England
• Fact Sheet 7: The Puritan Challenge to Elizabeth I
• Fact Sheet 8: Challenges to Elizabeth from Home & Abroad
• Fact Sheet 9: The Threat of Mary, Queen of Scots

Key Topic 2

• Fact Sheet 10: The Revolt of the Northern Earls
• Fact Sheet 11: Catholic Plots against Elizabeth (Throckmorton, Ridolfi, Babington)
• Fact Sheet 12: The Role of Francis Walsingham
• Fact Sheet 13: The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
• Fact Sheet 14: Increasing Tensions with Spain
• Fact Sheet 15: The Roles of Francis Drake at Cadiz and Robert Dudley in the Netherlands
• Fact Sheet 16: Spanish Invasion Plans of 1588
• Fact Sheet 17: The Reasons for the English Victory in 1588

Key Topic 3

• Fact Sheet 18: Education in Early Elizabethan England
• Fact Sheet 19: Sports and Pastimes in Early Elizabethan England
• Fact Sheet 20: Poverty in Early Elizabethan England
• Fact Sheet 21: Changing Attitudes Towards the Poor
• Fact Sheet 22: Exploration in Elizabethan England
• Fact Sheet 23: Francis Drake’s Circumnavigation of the Globe
• Fact Sheet 24: Walter Raleigh and the Virginia Project

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