01.04 - The 'First Battle of the Atlantic'

For generations, Habsburg Spain had been a stalwart ally of
England, their royal families connected by marriage and kinship, to
counter-balance the Auld Alliance of France and Scotland. This had
been the state of things for decades, and upon Elizabeth's
accession there was no reason to think that this would change.
Calais had just fallen to the French, and English armies had been
rampaging through Scotland just years before, and a French regent
ruled in place of her young child. And yet, by the time of
Elizabeth's death, Scotland was a close ally whose king would soon
inherit the crown of England and Ireland, and Spanish Armadas had
narrowly missed invading English shores. What caused this dramatic
reversal? Check out the podcast website:
https://www.paxbritannica.info Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/PodBritannica/ Twitter:
https://twitter.com/BritannicaPax In this episode I made particular
use of the following publications: - Doran, S. (2000). Elizabeth I
and Foreign Policy, 1558-1603 - Croft, P. (2005). ‘“The State of
the World is Marvellously Changed”: England, Spain and Europe
1558-1604’. Doran S. & Richardson G. (eds) Tudor England and
its Neighbours Find a full bibliography on the website. Learn more
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