Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

Elizabeth's reign was undoubtedly a time of great prosperity ... which was being colonised by European powers. Although it wasn’t until after the Elizabethan era that England became one of ...

Anouska: They had to repair their ships and ended up sailing for England on the 21st of July. Alice: So it’s not a great start ... million miles away from being an Elizabethan then.

Telegrams and flowers arrived by the thousands, from the humble and the great. Relatives came and ... If he was an Elizabethan in deed and spirit, he was implacably Victorian in his ideals and ...

Not only was it the last occasion on which the Latin service was used, as throughout Plantagenet times, and with the Roman mass, but what happened on the occasion was a portent of the policy the new ...

But soon, a pattern begins to emerge – petite blonde women are being murdered in cities all over America ... history and humour right through to its devilish denouement. Elizabethan England is brought ...

Reading, writes Edwina Preston, is a way of journeying on the wings of others without moving from the armchair (or bed). Here ...

It’s a great line and captures a frustration I’ve heard so often over the last 20 years of coaching the world’s top teams. This particular CEO did what most leaders think impossible ...

Former England captain Alastair Cook believes there are “two or three years of hard work” ahead of the English women after being “20 per cent behind Australia in everything” this Ashes.

England cricket legend James Anderson has signed a one-year contract with Lancashire at the age of 42. He retired from international cricket last July but has maintained his fitness as a coach ...

Support for this article was provided by the British Library’s Eccles Institute for the Americas & Oceania Phil Davies ...