On May 28, 1588, the Armada set sail from Lisbon and headed for the English Channel. When it left Lisbon, the fleet was composed of 141 ships, 10,138 sailors and 19,315 soldiers, and carried 2,500 cannon.
Helen Good’s talk will tell the story of this Armada from the perspective of the Mayor and Aldermen of Hull, based on Hull Corporation records of the time.
Helen Good is a retired historian who is currently the (unpaid) director of the Elizabethan Star Chamber project which is hosted by the University of Houston in Texas. Historians don’t stop working, they just stop being paid.
