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

Like the “gilded rococo hellscape” of President Donald Trump’s redesigned Oval Office, the rhetoric that Cabinet officials ...

Sandra Newman’s novel “The Heavens” explores notions of time travel, romance and mental stability.

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 ...

Early in the book, Alford appears to be offering Elizabethan England as an object lesson in the dangers of the surveillance state: "Yet the heightened vigilance of Queen Elizabeth's advisors was ...

Escape reality for a weekend and visit the village of Merriwick. The Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire is the best way to spend a summer night.

Researchers recently analyzed nine Elizabethan era archeological sites across London’s Bankside entertainment district to document a new way to locate, study, and identify bear-baiting evidence.

British architecture changed beyond recognition during the late Queen’s reign, reflecting the social, aesthetic and technological transformations of the past seven decades.

Description Far from being a lone genius, Shakespeare lived and wrote in an artistic and cultural ferment unlike anything England had seen before. In the London of his time, poets, playwrights, ...

TWO open-air theatre performances are taking place at Hedingham Castle this summer. Hedingham Castle will host two productions in the castle grounds, beginning with a new Tudor comedy on Sunday, July ...

Elizabethan England narrowly escaped invasion by an enormous naval force. The shipwrecks are still being discovered.