AQA A2 HISTORY: The Triumph of Elizabeth, 1547-1603 Offical Thread. 2nd June 2014.

Can anyone summarise the following Foreign Policy events for me? Some of my notes are lacking detail.
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- MQS situation in Scotland after 1560 but before flees to England in 1568. As I understand it, she returned as a ceremonial/figurehead monarch but Protestants rebel against her again?
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Thank you.

3 reigns on religion was last years question, so unlikely it will be on this year!

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What kind of questions could be asked regarding puritans?

How serious the threat was etc. Also potentially on how well Elizabeth dealt with them, as her ''rigidity created avoidable problems" - Warren. Then counter this with Whitgift's drive to end Puritanism.


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potentially a very nice question.

BTW, I am a private candidate (retaking to bump up my grade) silly question but when is the exam? My sheet says AM, so I'm assuming 10am?

EDIT Just checked, seems like it is 9am?

Yeah would be beaut if it comes up.

Yes all AM exams in the UK are usually 9am afaik.


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She returned pretty reluctantly to Scotland yeah, she had an awful relationship with the Protestant Lords of the Congregation.

Ended up marrying Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. (sidenote: This guy had a SUPER distant claim to the English throne so her marriage to him was seen as mad shady by Cecil etc. 'International Catholic Conspiracy' stuff)

Darnley was murdered in 1567 - his house had been blown up and his body was found in the garden all burnt etc. He had not been killed by the explosion and was subsequently strangled. Mary QOS and James Hepburn, the Earl of Bothwell, were suspected.

Bothwell whisked her away and married her 3 months later. Suspicions of their involvement in the murder of Darnley were confirmed for many when she married him.

The Lords of the Congregation rose up against her and imprisoned her (Bothwell left the country and died an alcoholic somewhere in Europe). She was locked up and made to give up the Scottish throne in favour of her son. She abdicated under force. Eventually she escaped prison and she fled to England.

Again basic but that's off the top of my head, couldn't find my notes on it… would again be interested in anyone else's additions?

Just to add to that- Basically MQS marries Darnley, but their marriage is over by 1566, he's murdered in 1567. Lords of the congregation feel intimidated by her and alot of them flee to England, this is bad for Elizabeth as it means English influence at scottish court is limited. In 1570 Moray basically lauches a coup against her, forces her to abdicate, give the throne to infant James VI and make him protector. However Moray is assassinated in 1570 and this leads to a civil war in Scotland with Catholics looking for help off the guises and Protestants looking to Elizabeth for help.
But yeah, Mary tries to raise an army but is defeated and captured, yet escapes and comes to England and is put under house arrest.

How is everyone approaching the essay in terms of a narrative/analytic approach?
I'm aiming to, throughout my essay to constantly attack (or agree) with the question- accessing its 'validity'. Using historian etc? Or is this not that important, I understand that the spec says historiography is not vital, I'll still use it though...


Also when it says synoptic? Something like this?


'cecil's blockage of the firth of forth- example of successful military conduct during scottish intervention, much more successful then somerset's garrisoning and failure to block resulting in french relief of edinburgh'


or 'the crisis of elizabeth's later reign- was not as bad a crisis as led to believe as it did not produce any significant public camping rebellion- as 1549 did''


or am i completely wrong lol.

I am gonna bomb the exam tomorrow.

im gonna fail despite my revision