Neil Younger
@neilayounger.bsky.social
Historian of early modern England at the Open University. Convenor of the IHR Tudor & Stuart Seminar. Live-tweeting the reign of Elizabeth I. New(ish) book on Sir Christopher Hatton: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159496/
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It occurred to me lately that I started studying Elizabeth I's reign as a postgrad 24 1/2 years ago (yikes), and also that Elizabeth's reign, at 44 years, is probably about the length of my academic career. By this logic, in terms of my-career-transposed-onto-Elizabeth's-reign, it's 1 March 1582.
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17 November 1582: It's Accession Day! 24 years since Elizabeth came to the throne. Sadly, the plague raging in London means that celebrations are muted - no big tournament this time. However, there are records from across the country that bells were rung, candles lit, sermons ... 1/
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November 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
17 November 1582: It's Accession Day! 24 years since Elizabeth came to the throne. Sadly, the plague raging in London means that celebrations are muted - no big tournament this time. However, there are records from across the country that bells were rung, candles lit, sermons ... 1/
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17 November 1582: It's Accession Day! 24 years since Elizabeth came to the throne. Sadly, the plague raging in London means that celebrations are muted - no big tournament this time. However, there are records from across the country that bells were rung, candles lit, sermons ... 1/
#earlymodern
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November 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
17 November 1582: It's Accession Day! 24 years since Elizabeth came to the throne. Sadly, the plague raging in London means that celebrations are muted - no big tournament this time. However, there are records from across the country that bells were rung, candles lit, sermons ... 1/
#earlymodern
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16 November 1582: In the Stationers' Register today, 'a ballade intituled, Yorke Yorke for my money of the merry reporte of Archery'. Known now only from a 1584 reprint, it describes an archery competition in York, witnessed by the Russian ambassadors (who must have been passing... 1/
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November 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
16 November 1582: In the Stationers' Register today, 'a ballade intituled, Yorke Yorke for my money of the merry reporte of Archery'. Known now only from a 1584 reprint, it describes an archery competition in York, witnessed by the Russian ambassadors (who must have been passing... 1/
#earlymodern
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16 November 1582: In the Stationers' Register today, 'a ballade intituled, Yorke Yorke for my money of the merry reporte of Archery'. Known now only from a 1584 reprint, it describes an archery competition in York, witnessed by the Russian ambassadors (who must have been passing... 1/
#earlymodern
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November 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
16 November 1582: In the Stationers' Register today, 'a ballade intituled, Yorke Yorke for my money of the merry reporte of Archery'. Known now only from a 1584 reprint, it describes an archery competition in York, witnessed by the Russian ambassadors (who must have been passing... 1/
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15 November 1582: In Mortlake, Dr John Dee is conversing with angels again, along with his scryer Edward Kelley, with whom he has recently reconciled. Dee starts a new record book today, his Quartus Liber Mysteriorum, and they use a 'showstone', or crystal ball. They speak ... 1/
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November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
15 November 1582: In Mortlake, Dr John Dee is conversing with angels again, along with his scryer Edward Kelley, with whom he has recently reconciled. Dee starts a new record book today, his Quartus Liber Mysteriorum, and they use a 'showstone', or crystal ball. They speak ... 1/
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15 November 1582: In Mortlake, Dr John Dee is conversing with angels again, along with his scryer Edward Kelley, with whom he has recently reconciled. Dee starts a new record book today, his Quartus Liber Mysteriorum, and they use a 'showstone', or crystal ball. They speak ... 1/
#earlymodern
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November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
15 November 1582: In Mortlake, Dr John Dee is conversing with angels again, along with his scryer Edward Kelley, with whom he has recently reconciled. Dee starts a new record book today, his Quartus Liber Mysteriorum, and they use a 'showstone', or crystal ball. They speak ... 1/
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14 November 1582: Lots of letters for Lord Burghley today. First, Philip Sidney, passing on a letter from his father Henry; he'd intended to visit in person, but Burghley is so grief-stricken he does not, not least because he and Burghley's late son-in-law, Wentworth 'weare ... 1/
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November 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
14 November 1582: Lots of letters for Lord Burghley today. First, Philip Sidney, passing on a letter from his father Henry; he'd intended to visit in person, but Burghley is so grief-stricken he does not, not least because he and Burghley's late son-in-law, Wentworth 'weare ... 1/
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14 November 1582: Lots of letters for Lord Burghley today. First, Philip Sidney, passing on a letter from his father Henry; he'd intended to visit in person, but Burghley is so grief-stricken he does not, not least because he and Burghley's late son-in-law, Wentworth 'weare ... 1/
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November 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
14 November 1582: Lots of letters for Lord Burghley today. First, Philip Sidney, passing on a letter from his father Henry; he'd intended to visit in person, but Burghley is so grief-stricken he does not, not least because he and Burghley's late son-in-law, Wentworth 'weare ... 1/
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13 November 1582: The earl of Leicester writes to Burghley with condolences on the death of his son-in-law, excusing their lateness with a disturbing tale of his own; he'd been at his house at Wanstead, but one of his servants fell sick of the plague, and since everyone had ... 1/
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November 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
13 November 1582: The earl of Leicester writes to Burghley with condolences on the death of his son-in-law, excusing their lateness with a disturbing tale of his own; he'd been at his house at Wanstead, but one of his servants fell sick of the plague, and since everyone had ... 1/
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13 November 1582: The earl of Leicester writes to Burghley with condolences on the death of his son-in-law, excusing their lateness with a disturbing tale of his own; he'd been at his house at Wanstead, but one of his servants fell sick of the plague, and since everyone had ... 1/
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November 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
13 November 1582: The earl of Leicester writes to Burghley with condolences on the death of his son-in-law, excusing their lateness with a disturbing tale of his own; he'd been at his house at Wanstead, but one of his servants fell sick of the plague, and since everyone had ... 1/
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12 November 1582: The court of James VI continues to be much more eventful than that of his cousin Elizabeth. Elizabeth's envoy, Robert Bowes, has, rather extraordinarily, been hunting for a casket, perhaps this one, containing the originals of the (in)famous Casket Letters from... 1/
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November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
12 November 1582: The court of James VI continues to be much more eventful than that of his cousin Elizabeth. Elizabeth's envoy, Robert Bowes, has, rather extraordinarily, been hunting for a casket, perhaps this one, containing the originals of the (in)famous Casket Letters from... 1/
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12 November 1582: The court of James VI continues to be much more eventful than that of his cousin Elizabeth. Elizabeth's envoy, Robert Bowes, has, rather extraordinarily, been hunting for a casket, perhaps this one, containing the originals of the (in)famous Casket Letters from... 1/
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November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
12 November 1582: The court of James VI continues to be much more eventful than that of his cousin Elizabeth. Elizabeth's envoy, Robert Bowes, has, rather extraordinarily, been hunting for a casket, perhaps this one, containing the originals of the (in)famous Casket Letters from... 1/
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9 November 1582: John Somer, one of Walsingham's espionage apparatchiks, writes to Walsingham about a conversation with Elizabeth I. He has evidently been talking to Archibald Douglas, an exiled Scot and inveterate (Protestant) conspirator, who seems to be back in the business. 1/
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November 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
9 November 1582: John Somer, one of Walsingham's espionage apparatchiks, writes to Walsingham about a conversation with Elizabeth I. He has evidently been talking to Archibald Douglas, an exiled Scot and inveterate (Protestant) conspirator, who seems to be back in the business. 1/
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9 November 1582: John Somer, one of Walsingham's espionage apparatchiks, writes to Walsingham about a conversation with Elizabeth I. He has evidently been talking to Archibald Douglas, an exiled Scot and inveterate (Protestant) conspirator, who seems to be back in the business. 1/
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November 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
9 November 1582: John Somer, one of Walsingham's espionage apparatchiks, writes to Walsingham about a conversation with Elizabeth I. He has evidently been talking to Archibald Douglas, an exiled Scot and inveterate (Protestant) conspirator, who seems to be back in the business. 1/
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8 November 1582: Mary Queen of Scots writes to Elizabeth, an immensely long letter (about 5,000 words in translation). Mary seems to think she's dying and is writing a sort of testament. There's endless rehearsal of the many wrongs done to her going back to her ejection from ... 1/
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November 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
8 November 1582: Mary Queen of Scots writes to Elizabeth, an immensely long letter (about 5,000 words in translation). Mary seems to think she's dying and is writing a sort of testament. There's endless rehearsal of the many wrongs done to her going back to her ejection from ... 1/
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8 November 1582: Mary Queen of Scots writes to Elizabeth, an immensely long letter (about 5,000 words in translation). Mary seems to think she's dying and is writing a sort of testament. There's endless rehearsal of the many wrongs done to her going back to her ejection from ... 1/
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November 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
8 November 1582: Mary Queen of Scots writes to Elizabeth, an immensely long letter (about 5,000 words in translation). Mary seems to think she's dying and is writing a sort of testament. There's endless rehearsal of the many wrongs done to her going back to her ejection from ... 1/
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7 November 1582: After suddenly taking ill last night, William Wentworth, husband of Lord Burghley's 18-year-old daughter Elizabeth, dies today at Theobalds. Not a very major historical figure, but his death was a source of considerable sadness for Burghley. His fellow councillors... 1/
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November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
7 November 1582: After suddenly taking ill last night, William Wentworth, husband of Lord Burghley's 18-year-old daughter Elizabeth, dies today at Theobalds. Not a very major historical figure, but his death was a source of considerable sadness for Burghley. His fellow councillors... 1/
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7 November 1582: After suddenly taking ill last night, William Wentworth, husband of Lord Burghley's 18-year-old daughter Elizabeth, dies today at Theobalds. Not a very major historical figure, but his death was a source of considerable sadness for Burghley. His fellow councillors... 1/
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November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
7 November 1582: After suddenly taking ill last night, William Wentworth, husband of Lord Burghley's 18-year-old daughter Elizabeth, dies today at Theobalds. Not a very major historical figure, but his death was a source of considerable sadness for Burghley. His fellow councillors... 1/
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6 November 1582: Not a lot in the records today. The exchequer official Richard Stonley notes that the legal term adjourned to Hertford began today, saying nothing about court business but describing the catering arrangements ('two messe very honorable of xvj Dishes at a Course'). 1/
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November 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
6 November 1582: Not a lot in the records today. The exchequer official Richard Stonley notes that the legal term adjourned to Hertford began today, saying nothing about court business but describing the catering arrangements ('two messe very honorable of xvj Dishes at a Course'). 1/
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Thursday 2 November 1620, 9:38 AM, and Napier is having child-wrangling problems: 'my boyes would not goe to schoole'. #earlymodern
November 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Thursday 2 November 1620, 9:38 AM, and Napier is having child-wrangling problems: 'my boyes would not goe to schoole'. #earlymodern
6 November 1582: Not a lot in the records today. The exchequer official Richard Stonley notes that the legal term adjourned to Hertford began today, saying nothing about court business but describing the catering arrangements ('two messe very honorable of xvj Dishes at a Course'). 1/
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November 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
6 November 1582: Not a lot in the records today. The exchequer official Richard Stonley notes that the legal term adjourned to Hertford began today, saying nothing about court business but describing the catering arrangements ('two messe very honorable of xvj Dishes at a Course'). 1/
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5 November 1582, a date which for the next 23 years will be of no special significance: the Spanish ambassador, Mendoza, reports on events at Elizabeth's court. She's been having discussions about how to fund her (notional) fiancé, Anjou's campaigns in the Netherlands, and wants ... 1/
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November 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
5 November 1582, a date which for the next 23 years will be of no special significance: the Spanish ambassador, Mendoza, reports on events at Elizabeth's court. She's been having discussions about how to fund her (notional) fiancé, Anjou's campaigns in the Netherlands, and wants ... 1/
#earlymodern
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5 November 1582, a date which for the next 23 years will be of no special significance: the Spanish ambassador, Mendoza, reports on events at Elizabeth's court. She's been having discussions about how to fund her (notional) fiancé, Anjou's campaigns in the Netherlands, and wants ... 1/
#earlymodern
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November 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
5 November 1582, a date which for the next 23 years will be of no special significance: the Spanish ambassador, Mendoza, reports on events at Elizabeth's court. She's been having discussions about how to fund her (notional) fiancé, Anjou's campaigns in the Netherlands, and wants ... 1/
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4 November 1582: Queen Elizabeth receives Feodor Pissemsky, an ambassador from Tsar Ivan, at Windsor; he was apparently 'magnificently received', various nobles having been summoned to court to adorn the court. Among other things, the ambassador has been tasked with ... 1/
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November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
4 November 1582: Queen Elizabeth receives Feodor Pissemsky, an ambassador from Tsar Ivan, at Windsor; he was apparently 'magnificently received', various nobles having been summoned to court to adorn the court. Among other things, the ambassador has been tasked with ... 1/
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4 November 1582: Queen Elizabeth receives Feodor Pissemsky, an ambassador from Tsar Ivan, at Windsor; he was apparently 'magnificently received', various nobles having been summoned to court to adorn the court. Among other things, the ambassador has been tasked with ... 1/
#earlymodern
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November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
4 November 1582: Queen Elizabeth receives Feodor Pissemsky, an ambassador from Tsar Ivan, at Windsor; he was apparently 'magnificently received', various nobles having been summoned to court to adorn the court. Among other things, the ambassador has been tasked with ... 1/
#earlymodern
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