Friday 15 January 2010

Elizabethan Puzzles, Kenilworth Castle and Shakespeare's Stratford - Unlocking secrets in history

Was William Shakespeare ‘a closet Papist’? Did the Elizabethan dramatist Kit Marlowe die in a drunken tavern brawl or was he deliberately murdered? What truth lies behind the contemporary charge that the Queen’s astrologer Dr John Dee practiced the black arts of devil conjuring? Was the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots the result of a deliberate and sinister plot by Elizabeth’s spy-master, Sir Francis Walsingham? Can Lady Penelope Devereaux be identified with Stella in the beautiful sonnets of Sir Philip Sidney?

Join John Sutton to find out - "Unlocking the Secrets of the Elizabethan Age" 20-23 August 2010

Unlocking the Secrets of the Elizabethan Age (3 nights) - History, Family History & Architecture
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Where to find us and what we do

Farncombe Estate is situated just outside the Cotswold village of Broadway. We are approximately 50 minutes from Oxford, Birmingham and Bristol and easily located from the M5, M40 and M42.

There is a direct rail service from London Paddington to Moreton in Marsh which is our nearest rail station. To help rail travellers we offer a return taxi collection service from the station.

For a location map and further directions please visit our website.