Elizabeth I wielded the scepter over England and Ireland. After many years of conflict, her reign was one of relative peace.

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 ...

One example of an Elizabethan stately home is Hardwick Hall, in Derbyshire. Built by Robert Smythson for the Elizabethan noblewoman Bess of Hardwick, it was one of the most luxurious homes in England.

John Cooper's The Queen's Agent is an exploration of the rise of espionage in Elizabethan England, and is just as thrilling as any modern spy novel. At the center of this forgotten corner of ...

Helen Mirren may have won an Oscar earlier this year for her portrayal of England’s current Queen Elizabeth, but it was her TV turn as Elizabeth I, who ruled from 1558 to 1603, that really ki… ...

Broadly speaking, the Southern highlanders are an Old England folk, English and Scotch-Irish, whose forebears came forth from Elizabethan England, a nation of young life which had just found its ...

Recommended text: R.E. Pritchard, ed., Shakespeare’s England: Life in Elizabethan and Jacobean Times. History Press, 2003. ISBN: 0750932112, 9780750932110. All poems we’ll study in this course will be ...