It was a consequential 118 years. Emerging after England’s War of the Roses, the Tudor dynasty — lasting from 1485 to 1603 — saw only three generations rule the country. And yet it was a time of major ...
In the London Review of Books, Irina Dumitrescu writes about reading and language learning in Renaissance England in a review of two books on the subject. The early modern classroom was no safe space.
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
THE Middle Ages in England were buried in Bosworth Field. Science in the next two centuries culminates in the age of Newton. Here are parts of the work of two outstanding figures in the second half of ...
Elizabethan manor houses, Baroque palaces and impregnable fortresses: England has an extraordinarily rich legacy. Here are eight castles you need to see across Old Blighty! Blenheim Palace, a UNESCO ...