After Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne in February 1952, the popular composer Ronald Binge changed the name of a light and graceful piece he had originally titled “The Man in the Street” to ...

A 400-year-old manor in the English countryside that once hosted King Charles II is on the market in the village of Hawkchurch in southwest England. Wyld Court, a nearly 8,000-square-foot Elizabethan ...

Christmas arrives each year with a certain excitement and magic. On even-numbered years since 1988, The Center for the Arts & Sciences’ Elizabethan Madrigal Feast transports guests to the enchanting ...

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Malgosia Tuzanska has a gift for making history feel alive. The costume designer behind The Green Knight, In a Valley of Violence, and now Hamnet doesn’t just recreate the past. She interprets it, ...

A 1562 painting of a duke has sold for more than £3.2m ($4.2m), said by the auctioneers to be a record for an Elizabethan portrait at auction. Hans Eworth's portrait of Thomas Howard, fourth Duke of ...

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 ...

A “spirit mirror” believed to have been used by Queen Elizabeth I’s famed political advisor John Dee was crafted in Aztec Mexico around 500 years ago, reinforcing the idea that the mirror was used by ...