Skip to content
Royal Museums Greenwich
National Maritime Museum
Royal Observatory
The Queen’s House
Cutty Sark
Search
Home
Visit
Collections
Schools
Researchers
Join
Shop
Astronomy & time
Sea & ships
Sea & ships fact files
Maritime history in-depth
Search for the North-West Passage
The race to the South Pole
Elizabeth I
An A-Z of Nelson
Nelson & Napoleon
Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition
Erskine Childers' log books
Bligh and Shackleton's boat journeys
Franklin's last expedition
The Ordnance Survey
Cook
Brunel
Flinders
Henry VIII
Nelson
Pirates
World War I
Art & New Visions
Podcasts
Games & activities
Threats to the Crown
Seek peace but prepare for war.
William Cecil (1520–98)
Mary, Queen of Scots
With the religious settlement of 1559, Elizabeth became defined at home and abroad as a Protestant...
The Armada of 1588
England, the upstart Protestant nation with its 'heretic' Queen, had been a thorn in King Philip II...
Rallying the troops
Elizabeth had no intention of letting England be taken over by the mighty Spanish Armada. Her...
© 2012 National Maritime Museum. All rights reserved.
Copyright
Terms of use
Privacy
Accessibility