An extremely rare autographed letter to Queen Elizabeth from her lifelong friend and possible love interest, Robert Dudley, ...

Elizabeth I ordered the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, a Catholic claimant to the English throne, on this day in 1587 Sarah Holzmann Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle ...

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, wrote of an unspecified great matter of state said to bear directly on the Queen’s life.

An extremely rare autographed letter to Queen Elizabeth from her lifelong friend and possible love interest, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, ...

Eventually in 1603 Elizabeth died and James was offered the throne. The succession passed smoothly and James VI of Scotland became James I of England and Ireland. Although promising to return to ...

This was a conspiracy between English Catholics and continental powers to overthrow Elizabeth and replace her with Mary Queen of Scots ... specialist in rare books and manuscripts at Lyon ...

Burton has since written four further bestsellers, including The Muse and The Confession, and her books have been translated ...

Max Richter writes music about issues that affect us all, from getting a better night's sleep, to the importance of defending ...

Mary’s obsession with the English throne allowed Queen Elizabeth to manipulate her. Believing that marriage would be one way to distract Mary from her ambition to rule England, Elizabeth cannily ...

Norfolk has the largest concentration of medieval churches in the world. Almost 1000 were built, and today an incredible 639 ...

The need for secret communications arose very early in civilization. It progressed due to the “intellectual arms race” ...