Could this be the fair youth?

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

IT was a fine, windy day in September, and Rosalind Aston had an odd feeling that she was in love. The emotion was new, and she could not be sure, but she luxuriated in it as she walked towards the ha

Charlotte Mullins comments on Elizabeth I when a Princess

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

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

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York