This unit promotes an understanding of the change and continuity over a period of 60 years of British History, during which the power of the Tudor state was strengthened both home and abroad, despite recurrent threats to the national and religious unity and continuing problems of the succession. Through the study of themes and developments in depth, an understanding of key individuals such as Somerset, Northumberland, Burghley, Leicester and the Tudor Monarchs themeselves in their exercise of political power; social, economic and religious factors that contributed to the processes of change. The explanation of issues and ideas that shaped relationships between the people and state between the 'Mid Tudor Crisis' and the death of Elizabeth.