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In July 1575, Robert Dudley enlisted mythological figures to convince Elizabeth I to wed him. Exactly 450 years later, artist Lindsey Mendick reveals how and why she reinterpreted their encounter in her installation for Kenilworth Castle

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In her latest novel, Sarah Dunant explores the life of Italian aristocrat Isabella d’Este, the archetypal Renaissance woman

When Tipu Sultan resisted Britain’s colonial expansion, he was painted as a bogeyman and, after he fell, his kingdom was looted with shocking rapacity, but his legacy has long awed the British–not least William Blake and John Keats, as Lucien de Guise discovers

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