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Elizabethan

A history of red hair and amazing animals

Shakespeare in 1606 and Olympic swimmers

Francis Drake

Life of the Week: Sir Francis Drake

Lady Margaret Douglas, a close relative of Henry VIII. Her romantic liaisons landed her in the Tower of London on more than one occasion. (Photo by Florilegius/SSPL/Getty Images)

Margaret Douglas: The forgotten Tudor princess

Tixall Gatehouse, Staffordshire. (Photo by The Landmark Trust)

10 of Britain’s most amazing landmark buildings

Queen Elizabeth II

How to be a successful monarch

A portrait of Elizabeth I.

The enchanting history of charisma

In pictures: kings and queens through history

Terror in Elizabethan England

Actors in a staging of Shakepeare's 'Macbeth'

Q&AWhy don't actors refer to the Shakespeare play Macbeth by name?

A painting showing the defeat of the Spanish Armada

The Spanish Armada: all at sea

Elizabeth I: what does this forgotten portrait tell us about her?

The front of Shakespeare's birthplace on Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon.

History explorer: the young William Shakespeare

Shakespeare and war in the Middle East

Photo of a horse

Why do we say 'horse of a different colour'?

Elizabeth I and an unlikely suffragette

Tudor dining: a guide to food and status in the 16th century

History quiz - Queens of England

An illustration from the first edition of John Foxe The Book of Martyrs. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

The LibraryElizabeth I’s war with England’s Catholics

Shakespeare: 7 burning questions about his life

Picture of the charge of the 4th Hussars at the battle of Friedland

Q&AWhat were hussar regiments?

The other Elizabethan England

‘Earliest portrait of guinea pig’ revealed in unseen painting

Elizabeth I: the monarch behind the mask

The Spanish Armada: Tudor spin portrayed the events of August 1588 as a glorious English victory but, argues Robert Hutchinson, bad weather and bad tactics had more to do with the Spanish fleet's failure than Elizabethan derring-do. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The Spanish Armada: England's lucky escape

Winston Churchill, former prime minister of the United Kingdom, gives his 'victory' sign while making a polling day tour of his constituency during an election. (Getty Images)

Are these the most overrated people in history?

Executed queen

Procession portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

How Elizabeth I used parties as a weapon against the Catholic threat to her throne

Laurence Olivier plays Richard III in the 1955 film adaptation of Shakespeare's play. In it, the controversial monarch is damned as everything from a "bottled spider" and "lump of foul deformity" to a "poisonous bunch-backed toad". (Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Why did Shakespeare revile Richard III?

A view towards the Carew estuary between a dry stone wall and the ruins of Carew Castle, Pembrokeshire, UK. (Dreamstime)

Where history happened: Tudor courtiers with Suzannah Lipscomb