“Theatres in Elizabethan England showcase how the time was a golden age.” Using your study of the Globe Theatre how far do you agree? 16 marks

  Elizabethan England was known as a golden age of culture, as a result of the fact that during her reign from 1553-1603, the country was relatively peaceful compared to the times previously. As well as this exploration into the New World, and new discoveries resulted in the so called Golden Age. The theatre, in

How useful is the source to historians studying the impact of the American Wars of Independence?

This source shows the British Commander Cornwallis surrendering 8,000 British soldiers and sailors to an American and French force at Yorktown on 19 October 1781. This lithograph (print) was published in America in 1846. This source is useful to show the impact that losing the wars of independence had on the British, as it clearly