Bess of Hardwick: A Brief History
Four times the nuptial bed she warmed And every time so well performed That when death spoiled each husband’s billing He left the widow every shilling. -Horace Walpole
Elizabeth, Queen of England (Part Five)
Missed the previous parts in this series? You can find the previous four articles here: Part ONE, Part TWO, Part THREE, Part FOUR written by Rebecca Larson Elizabeth, Queen of England – Elizabeth’s Ladies By mid-January 1559 Elizabeth had her household set, rightfully so, she was officially crowned Queen of England. Her group of tightly…
Dishing with the Tudors: My Adventures in Renaissance Comedy
Guest Article by: JoAnn Spears Dishing with the Tudors: My adventures in Renaissance comedy I am one of those people who ‘reads out’ a subject or author of interest. That took some doing with Jean Plaidy’s canon of eighty-odd historical fiction novels. Having started in on the task at the age of twelve, with The…
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Great Houses – The Age of Gloriana
The reign of Elizabeth I (the last Tudor monarch) is often associated with a golden age in English history – The age of Gloriana. Burghley House “Sir William Cecil built his extravagant ‘prodigy house’ on the Burghley estate, which his father, Richard Cecil, had purchased after it had been seized from Peterborough Abbey on the…
