The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England BBC2, 9pm

Ian Mor timer rounds off his three-par t “timetravelogue” by exploring the lives of a new and upwardly mobile section of Elizabethan society – the middle class. He reveals the impact that urbanisation and education had on the population by visiting Stratford-upon-Avon, to see how the lives of ordinary people were transformed during Elizabeth I’s reign. He also tells the dramatic stor y of how English imperial ambitions led to the threat of Spanish invasion.

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