Travel back in time to the dirt, drama and glamour of Elizabethan England: abandon your 21st century perspective and imagine what it was really like to live hundreds of years ago. Plunge back 500 ...

This course will take place in person at 60 Turner Street. The room will be equipped with a HEPA air purifier. Far from being a lone genius, Shakespeare lived and wrote in an artistic and cultural ...

On Sept. 21, 1588, a savage storm lashed the western coast of Ireland. As the gale intensified, three bulky ships ran aground on the sands of Streedagh Strand, north of Sligo. Part of a formidable ...

After Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne in February 1952, the popular composer Ronald Binge changed the name of a light and graceful piece he had originally titled “The Man in the Street” to ...

A fascinating look at how Elizabethan England was transformed by its interactions with cultures from around the world. Challenging the myth of Elizabethan England as insular and xenophobic, this ...

Lords, ladies, knights and knaves, break out your corsets and breeches to welcome 16th-century England back to Warren County. The 33rd Ohio Renaissance Festival returns to Renaissance Park in ...

At an estate in southwest England, a forgotten manor house was discovered by archaeology students. Laurence Vinnels University of Exeter When the great manor houses of the United Kingdom were built ...

Presents slides of material from 15th-to 19th-century books, and slides of two 16th-century instruments to illustrate the history of music in England in the 16th ...

Although most people have images of courtiers in fine clothes and lavish palaces, the reality is that most Elizabethans are poor. What is it like to live in a dank, smoke-filled hovel in the ...