Elizabeth I wielded the scepter over England and Ireland. After many years of conflict, her reign was one of relative peace.

One example of an Elizabethan stately home is Hardwick Hall, in Derbyshire. Built by Robert Smythson for the Elizabethan noblewoman Bess of Hardwick, it was one of the most luxurious homes in England.

Sir Walter Raleigh was the greatest adventurer of the Elizabethan Age, but when his fortunes changed he made a fatal mistake ...

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 ...

KENT, ENGLAND—Live Science reports that a section of the hull of an Elizabethan ship was found last spring while workers were dredging up gravel in a flooded quarry on the Dungeness headland in ...