WE know a land of Elizabethan ways — a country of Spenserian speech, Shakespearean people, and of cavaliers and curtsies. It is a land of high hopes and mystic allegiances, where one may stroll ...
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 ...
Ian Mortimer: As your guide to the 16th century, I'd like to show you the very best that the Elizabethan period has to offer. Where better to start than at one of the Queen's magnificent royal palaces ...
Archaeologists conducting excavations near Birmingham have discovered one of the best-preserved Elizabethan gardens ever found in England. As BBC News reports, no historical record of the 16th-century ...
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 ...
DR IAN MORTIMER:'Elizabethan London is unlike any other city or town in England. It has a much bigger population, covers a larger area, and is much richer.' DR IAN MORTIMER:'As you near the city, ...
Last April, workers dredging for gravel in a quarry just outside Dungeness in Kent, England inadvertently turned up the remains of a shipwreck. Perplexed by the discovery, they called upon the ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Laura Van Den Berg THE HEAVENS By Sandra Newman The dream that summons an event, the premonition, ...
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