Sir Walter Raleigh was a fearless adventurer and famed explorer of the Elizabethan Age. He introduced tobacco to England, searched for the golden city of El Dorado, and enjoyed the favor of Queen ...

The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I, by Stephen Alford, Bloomsbury, 2012, 398 pages, $35 England in particular has a long history of spying on its own people. It is no ...

In England, Emilia is the mistress of a nobleman and crosses paths with a man named Will — yes, that Will — who believes himself to be on a similar world-saving mission.

Just as the poachers of olden England slew the Queen’s deer and made ready to take the consequences, so the ‘blockaders’ of Elizabethan America crush their com, set their ‘beers,’ make ...

Experience a time-travelling escape as Elizabethan England comes to life at the Canterbury Renaissance Faire. Although the event has moved, it is still nestled away in a shaded grove in Silverton.

Gruesome bear fights once entertained Elizabethan England. Animal bones can tell archeologists more about these 'bear-baiting' spectacles. By Andrew Paul. Published Feb 18, 2025 11:58 AM EST.

Elizabethan England narrowly escaped invasion by an enormous naval force. ... The Spanish Enterprise and England’s Deliverance in 1588,” Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker trace the genesis, ...

Recommended text: R.E. Pritchard, ed., Shakespeare’s England: Life in Elizabethan and Jacobean Times. History Press, 2003. ISBN: 0750932112, 9780750932110. All poems we’ll study in this course will be ...