A coin minted during the reign of one of Great Britain’s most famous monarchs recently fetched a record price at auction. The ...

Jessie Childs’s God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England is a detailed and absorbing account of the difficulties of being Catholic in England in ...

Post-Reformation England was jittery with fears of a Catholic revival. Sir Francis Walsingham, the spymaster and priest-hunter at the court of Elizabeth I, regarded Jesuits as a sinister sect involved ...

In the closing years of Elizabeth I’s reign, England saw the emergence of arguably the world’s first effective welfare state. Laws were established that successfully protected people from rises in ...

Toby Clements is thrilled by Ian Mortimer's The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, which tells us much about their bathing habits, among other fascinating details. By Toby Clements 28 ...

Phil Edwards was a senior producer for the Vox video team. Try to identify the time period: a few tightly controlled companies have complete control over publishing, so piracy emerges. Some of these ...

British historian Cooper’s biography of Elizabethan spymaster Francis Walsingham is as thrilling and suspenseful as any modern spy novel. Plumbing both primary and secondary sources, Cooper deftly ...

As a hobbit in exile my heart’s hearth remains in the Shire; and, to be specific, to the English shire of Norfolk in East Anglia. For many people, the restfully rolling landscape of East Anglia will ...

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 accident ...