Dispersed throughout the centuries and across the globe ? a sleepy Devonshire village, a 1950s Hollywood film set, a horse hurtling on a Victorian racecourse, the Beatles meditating in India, a border dispute in South America, and a storm raging in the Outer Banks of North Carolina in 1993? they all lead back to Sir Walter Raleigh. He is the man of paradoxes: the outsider who wanted access to the royal court, a monarchist who later became a republican hero, a lover and a fighter, a pirate and a poet, the last great Elizabethan superstar and the first victim of the Stuart dynasty. Let's chart his rise, his fall, and his legacy. AUTHOR: David J. Wildman has taught history for the past decade at South Devon College, specialising in the Tudor period and local studies. He has written a number of journal articles relating to Cornish history and maintains a blog (Dave Does History) in which he writes about a wide range of issues relating to the past. His first book, The Tudor Empire, was published in 2024. 30 b/w illustrations
