Showing Elizabeth I in a new light

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> including earlier accounts of Elizabeth's excommunication by Elizabeth I in 1570

Probably more like Pope St. Pius V.

It looks like a copy/paste error from the linked Guardian article: "In 1570, Pope Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/14/heart-stopping...

I don't see where they copy-pasted anything; it's a paraphrase, or simply a summary.

Perhaps they modified the article text so as to paint Pope Pius in a more flattering light...

It's kinda cool that modern technology is able to uncover aspects of the past. Thanks for sharing.

The title is a bit mismatched for the content, though.

I don't understand why we would want to show her in a new light. She's a dead monarch, and in that singular aspect she's a role model to all monarchs.

It seems like you completely missed the pun.

Huh, apparently the British library got its own bl.uk domain, that's neat.

A fun side-effect of their JANET (roughly analogous to nsfnet in the US) hostname pre-dating DNS.

I believe anyone can get .uk domains now, they don't have to be .co.uk - but this one's been anomalous since 1985.

bl.uk is one of the few original direct subdomains of .uk that existed before Nominet opened up to direct registrations in 2014. As far as I'm aware, bl.uk, parliament.uk, nls.uk (national library of Scotland) and nhs.uk were the only .uk domains that weren't under .ac.uk, .co.uk, .org.uk, .mod.uk, or .gov.uk before that point.

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