Date: November 26th, 2009 08:01 am (UTC)From:jinty
but I've just been reading "The Queen's Fool" which is set in the reign of Mary I and features Elizabeth as a character.
I could still easily have done the century and had no doubt about that; the decade would have been a little trickier but I would have got fairly close.
My history knowledge is from reading non-fiction subsequent to school and university, and more than that, from reading historical fiction.
[ETA - Except! I mis-remembered the date when remembering it from the book above - instead of 1558 I remembered 1588. D'oh.]
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I'm pretty sure about those dates
Date: November 26th, 2009 08:01 am (UTC)From:I could still easily have done the century and had no doubt about that; the decade would have been a little trickier but I would have got fairly close.
My history knowledge is from reading non-fiction subsequent to school and university, and more than that, from reading historical fiction.
[ETA - Except! I mis-remembered the date when remembering it from the book above - instead of 1558 I remembered 1588. D'oh.]