Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince Sherlock Holmes and a mood of national

and a mood of national pride all went towards making it a unique moment in British history

Gulliver in Lilliput

Brought to life with photographs of the places

from the striped tulip fields of Holland to the green swirl of a plankton super bloom that attracts a marine feeding frenzy

from animal maulings staged for cheering crowds to painful poisons slipped to bad rulers and inconvenient heirs

Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince Sherlock Holmes and a mood of nationalA new portrait that casts the queen as she saw herself: not as an exceptional woman, but as an exceptional ruler Queen Elizabeth I was all too happy to play on courtly conventions of gender when it suited her "weak and feeble woman's body" to do so for political gain. But in Elizabeth, historian Lisa Hilton offers ample evidence why those famous words should not be taken at face value. With new research out of France, Italy, Russia, and Turkey,