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Tarnya Cooper looks at the wider iconography of Elizabeth, and how this evolved during her reign.

Michelle Brown, curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library, discusses new interpretations of this treasure, and how this month visitors to the Library will be able to get closer to it than ever before.

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Susan Doran looks at what it meant to be a female monarch in a male world and how the Queen responded to the challenges.

Alison Weir, best-selling historian of the medieval and sixteenth-century royal families, explains how she first encountered the power of history in a strange feeling of identification with Anne Boleyn.

An ageing regime: Paul E.J. Hammer looks at Elizabeth I and her government in the 1590s.

Pepys rose from humble origins to become secretary of the Admiralty, a member of parliament and the president of the Royal Society.

Tom Bowers rounds up the best in history publishing for Spring 2003.

Mary Harlow and Ray Laurence look at what it meant to become a senior citizen in ancient Rome, and how this early model has a bearing on our attitudes towards ageing today.