Outside Paris. Eleanor got her divorce and she's on her way back to Aquitaine with a proposal of marriage to the very ...

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 ...

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Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

Forget Hamlet, Lear or Macbeth – the Bard saved his sharpest psychological insights and finest poetry for Richard II ...

In “Something of Shakespeare in Trump’s lawyers purge?” (Letters, February 4), your correspondent refers to Dick the Butcher ...

The letter was written on January 28, 1554, and addressed to William Paget, a prominent diplomat who served in the courts of ...

Hadleigh vicar Dr Rowland Taylor was put to death. Dr Taylor was one of many Protestant martyrs killed under Mary I.

A letter written by Queen Mary I which talks about the "traitor, the Duke of Suffolk," has been sold for more than £37,000 at ...

James I of England and VI of Scotland, will unite the crowns of Scotland and England 100 years later. The 17-year-old Henry succeeds to the throne on the death of his father, Henry VII.

Rob Williams sees an excellent production of two complex plays by one of England's most revered theatrical geniuses.