We hope you have your swashes buckled (or buckles swashed?) in preparation for this terrifically Tudor instalment of North by North-East.
Indeed, Ben and Glen are riding full pelt into the 1569 Rising of the North, an event that reshaped both our region and the Kingdom. This Northern Rebellion, as it is also known, formed one of the most serious challenges to Elizabeth I’s rule, a challenge she was determined to put down both swiftly and brutally.
Lend us your ears, as we recount how the northern pot was fiercely stirred by religious dissidents and unready nobles.
Earls shall scheme, castles shall fall, and harmonicas shall be blown!
Useful resources:
- Memorials of the Rebellion of 1569, by Sir Cuthbert Sharp (1840)
- The Northern Rebellion of 1569, by K. J. Kesselring (2007)
- ‘1569: A People’s Tragedy’, from A People’s Tragedy, by Eamon Duffy (2020)
- ‘The Northern Rebellion’, from Tudor Rebellions, by Diarmaid MacCulloch and Anthony Fletcher (2020)
