Now they turn their attentions to the Elizabethan explorer, sailor, dandy and warrior, Sir Walter Raleigh, Elizabeth I ... “I just happened to be reading a book about him and I thought I ...

This week one of the best in many a month is being published ... The Golden Hand is worthy of the master of historical fiction himself, Sir Walter Scott. And it is often rich where Scott is ...

is in the book’s subtitle because it was there that the first would-be Irish settlers arrived in the 1580s as part of Munster Plantation beneficiary Sir Walter Raleigh’s attempt to establish ...

After Sir Keir Starmer gives us permission to big up England's national day, Garry Bushell asks why our national broadcasters ...

Far from bringing any sense of national cohesion, St George’s Day this year seems to have set politicians and commentators at ...

Andrew Margerison is both writer and Sir Walter Raleigh ... was the final chapter of Raleigh’s life that was perhaps the most daring, the strangest and the most utterly heart-breaking. “I just ...

Built in 1792, destroyed by fire, and rebuilt in a grand Greek Revival style using local granite — the Capitol’s haunted reputation includes underground tunnels once used by Civil War spies, and ...

“I best understand people in the past by understanding ... a threat made more menacing by the unpredictable weather. Sir Walter Raleigh warned that Bermuda was surrounded by “a hellish sea ...

Last year, Sherborne, a market town with idyllic charm just a stone's throw from Devon, was lauded as one of Britain's "best places ... established by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1594.

home to the prize and to Sir Walter Scott himself. READ MORE: US pop superstar Chappell Roan announces second Scottish show – how to get tickets The books were revealed in Abbotsford’s walled gardens, ...