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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.
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 ...
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.
Elizabethan England narrowly escaped invasion by an enormous naval force. The shipwrecks are still being discovered.
British architecture changed beyond recognition during the late Queen’s reign, reflecting the social, aesthetic and technological transformations of the past seven decades.
The death of Queen Elizabeth has come at a bad time for the United Kingdom. Against a backdrop of soaring inflation, a slumping currency and the worst cost-of-living crisis in decades, the country ...
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 ...
The first Elizabethan era ended on March 24, 1603, when 69-year-old Queen Elizabeth I died in her sleep at Richmond Palace. “This morning, about three o’clock, her Majesty departed from this ...