Travel back in time to the dirt, drama and glamour of Elizabethan England: abandon your 21st century perspective and imagine what it was really like to live hundreds of years ago. Plunge back 500 ...

Although most people have images of courtiers in fine clothes and lavish palaces, the reality is that most Elizabethans are poor. What is it like to live in a dank, smoke-filled hovel in the ...