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

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 ...

Mary Tudor, favourite sister of King Henry VIII, was feted around Europe for her pale skin and good looks. Henry arranged for Mary’s marriage to the aging and gouty King Louis XII as part of a peace ...

Elizabeth I gave her name to a golden age of poets, statesmen and adventurers. Known as the Virgin Queen, or Gloriana, her union with her people became a substitute for the marriage she never made.

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 ...

Join us as over 40 of the best in Living History re-enactment groups set up camp in and around our historic buildings, representing life from the Stone Age, through the Viking era to the 1940s and ...