Protestant England under Elizabeth was not at peace but in a cold war with Catholic Europe.

0:00When Elizabeth Tuda ascends the throne in 1558, her regime is dangerously fragile. She is a Protestant queen ruling a country that is still in its instincts and in its traditions deeply Catholic. Yet she survives on the throne surrounded by enemies though she is. There is no rebellion. There is no invasion. But this is not a peace. Protestant England is in a cold war. Europe has become a deadly chessboard.

0:31Potential traitors are everywhere. This episode is brought to you by the Lloyd's 5K house deposit. And this is something that was last seen in 1996. Yeah. So, the 1990s looks now like a lost golden age of prosperity and positivity, doesn't it? Think of the sort of the advent of the Blair administration in 1997, all the enthusiasm and excitement that surrounded that, the economic growth of the time, the technological development,

0:58the sort of sense of a an endless golden summer where everybody's listening to Blur and Oasis and looking forward to to buying their first houses. And that of course takes us to mortgages. Now, the good news is that in a nod to the 1990s, Lloyds are offering 5K deposit mortgages to firsttime buyers. So search 5K firsttime buyer 1996 average firsttime buyer deposits are based on OS data.