Beneath the timber and stone of Harvington Hall lies a hidden war. Built during the height of religious persecution, this Tudor manor features multiple secret chambers designed to hide Catholic ...

London’s Globe Theatre, first built in 1599, served as the Elizabethan era’s artistic and cultural hub. But for every play written by William Shakespeare for the stage, the city’s surrounding Bankside ...

Travel back in time to the dirt, drama and glamour of Elizabethan England: abandon your 21st century perspective and imagine what it was really like to live hundreds of years ago. Plunge back 500 ...

More than 200 peasants, lords and ladies will be roaming about the Shire at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire this weekend - and Amy Johnson will be trying her best to say hidden among the crowds. As ...

In a deadly cold period known as the Little Ice Age, clever Elizabethan designs kept a magnificent stately home unusually warm – with lessons for how we can heat our own homes better.

MAGIC is inspired by Haddon Hall itself – a truly enchanted place. Set in acres of ancient medieval parkland with a backdrop of the rolling Derbyshire hills, Haddon’s magical turrets and battlements ...

Lords, ladies, knights and knaves, break out your corsets and breeches to welcome 16th-century England back to Warren County. The 33rd Ohio Renaissance Festival returns to Renaissance Park in ...

William Shakespeare's blacksmith, midwife, and alewife friends return from the future. William Shakespeare's blacksmith, midwife, and alewife friends return from the future. Each has brought back ...

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND—Yahoo News reports that traces of a previously undocumented ornamental garden have been discovered in the West Midlands at the site where Coleshill Manor once stood. Archaeologists ...

Although most people have images of courtiers in fine clothes and lavish palaces, the reality is that most Elizabethans are poor. What is it like to live in a dank, smoke-filled hovel in the ...