Take one Spanish princess, a handsome local chieftain, and a jealous wife; add a heap of alluring Spanish gold, some ...

Mary Tudor was sister to Henry VIII, an English princess by birth and a short-lived Queen of France, whose famous good looks ...

This was the Age of Exploration and MP, explorer and adventurer Sir Edward Michelborne was keen to play his part. Turned down ...

Josiah Child’s War, perhaps better known as the First Anglo-Indian War, on the Indian subcontinent was fought between 1686 ...

5th and 6th May 2024 at Chiltern Open Air Museum, Newland Park, Gorelands Lane, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire HP8 4AB Experience Elizabethan May Day merriment with dancing, swordplay, gunpowder ...

Some influential men have streets named in their honour, even more influential men have towns or even cities named after them, so how to compare a man after whom they named large swathes of Africa?

The most famous of all English playwrights was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564. William’s father John was a wealthy merchant and a respectable member of the community within the small Warwickshire ...