In a deadly cold period known as the Little Ice Age, clever Elizabethan designs kept a magnificent stately home unusually ...

After Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne in February 1952, the popular composer Ronald Binge changed the name of a light and graceful piece he had originally titled “The Man in the Street” to ...

EncinitasEncinitas — When Elizabethan Desserts closed its doors in September 2015, its longtime customers were literally pounding on the Encinitas shop’s windows in grief. Owner Elizabeth Harris said ...

While there may not be a TV or microwave in sight, this elegant, Elizabethan-style manor boasts 30 ft ceilings, exquisite antiques, all the original fireplaces and interiors that will actually take ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I, by Stephen Alford, Bloomsbury, 2012, 398 pages, $35 England in particular has a long history of spying on its own people. It is no accident ...

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 ...

If you can tell a person by their collection of paintings, what are we to make of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who commissioned more portraits of himself than any other courtier in Elizabethan ...