It fascinated Mr Beveridge because most of the card tricks from the Elizabethan era were based on sleight of hand rather than calculations. According to the 19th Century transcription, the performer ...

Printing is one of three things identified by the great English philosopher Francis Bacon, as making the Elizabethan age so different from what went earlier.' DR IAN MORTIMER:'The other two are ...

Elizabethan people see them as horrific ... Made of pure silver,' DR IAN MORTIMER:'the groat has been part of the English currency since Mediaeval times.' DR IAN MORTIMER:'You'll also hear ...