Who was william shakespeare?

Does a newly found Nicholas Hilliard miniature portray Shakespeare’s patron the Earl of Southampton?

Riots and raccoons, haves and have-nots, Spanish and Swahili: Shakespeare in Central Park

Richmond Palace, 22 March 1603. Elizabeth I – the self-proclaimed Virgin Queen who had ruled England for 44 years, seeing off the Armada, healing religious divisions and creating a court so magnificen

Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern ...

Samuel Pepys’s self-incriminating diaries

The Americans are even more prone than the British to the biographical doorstopper as a way in which to honour the lives, minute by minute, of their famous dead. Walter Isaacson and Jon Meacham are am