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 ...

Sixteenth-century Elizabethan England has always had a special place in the nation's understanding of itself. But few realise that it was also the first time that Muslims began openly living ...

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 ...

But it also perfectly describes book publishing in Elizabethan England in the mid-1500s. Back then, piracy was rampant — and for a simple reason.

At war with Catholic Europe, Elizabethan England turned to the Ottomans, finds Jeremy Seal. On a May morning in 1570 a papal bull, nailed to the door of the Bishop of London’s palace, sealed ...

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.

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.

In Elizabethan England, words counted. Particularly the most insulting, offensive and hurtful words. Words like ninnycock, rotten hornibus, jackanapes and (whisper it) ninnyhammer. A painstakingly ...