• Elizabethan era (1558–1603), there was a wide range of leisure activities entertaining both the nobility and the common classes. Among these leisure activities...
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    The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict...
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  • Warner Hotels (formally Warner Leisure Hotels) is a hospitality company owning 14 country and coastal properties around the UK in North Wales, Somerset...
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  • Netherlandish painting - Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture - Elizabethan architecture - Elizabethan era - Elizabethan leisure - Elizabethan literature - English...
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    Littlecote House (category Elizabethan architecture)
    Littlecote House is a large Elizabethan country house and estate in the civil parishes of Ramsbury and Chilton Foliat, in the English county of Wiltshire...
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    of Burgeys stood for 'bourgeois', the inhabitant of a borough. By the Elizabethan period, a community had established itself there, and many buildings...
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    were made to it in the 1720s by Giacomo Leoni, who retained some of the Elizabethan features and added others, particularly the courtyard and the south range...
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    Leisure Centre revamp complete". Leisure Opportunities. Hitchin. Archived from the original on 23 June 2021. Retrieved 23 June 2021. "Rainbow Leisure...
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  • destruit what nourishes me destroys me Thought to have originated with Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. Generally interpreted to mean that that...
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  • Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Bristol 18 June 2009 Elizabethan Revenge Jonathan Bate, Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature...
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  • The Rose was an Elizabethan theatre. It was the fourth of the public theatres to be built, after The Theatre (1576), the Curtain (1577), and the theatre...
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    Coxon, with whom he would later form Blur. They released their debut album Leisure in 1991. After spending long periods touring the US, Albarn's songwriting...
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    changed character and emphasis nearly decade by decade over that time. The Elizabethan Religious Settlement of 1559 established the Church of England as a Protestant...
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    conflicts with the English Parliament. Under James, the "Golden Age" of Elizabethan literature and drama continued, with writers such as William Shakespeare...
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    the annual 10-day Prescot Festival of Music and the Arts and an annual Elizabethan Fayre. The Shakespeare North Trust promotes William Shakespeare's historic...
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    of the Docklands area. Rotherhithe has a long history as a port, with Elizabethan shipyards and working docks until the 1970s. In the 1980s, the area along...
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    is built in 3 storeys in a 9 x 8 bay rectangular block. Nidd Hall, an Elizabethan Manor house, was the seat of the Trappes family. The Catholic priest...
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    Mowbray & Co. * Durant, David N. (1977). Bess of Hardwick: Portrait of an Elizabethan Dynasty. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-77305-4. Heritage...
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    accentuated by pattern(s) in the fabric itself. Ruffs were popular in the Elizabethan era. The off-the-shoulder trend dates back to the Regency and Victorian...
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    a grand mansion (incorporating a three storey tower) designed in the Elizabethan style by architect Robert Smirke. In 1843 Drayton Manor received a royal...
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  • Ballroom, which was replaced by a "huge ballroom complex" known as the New Elizabethan Ballroom in 1959. With room for 4,000 dancers on its two floors,it was...
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  • Canadian Establishment B. P. Nichol 1944 1988 poet Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer, The Martyrology Cecily Nicholson poet From the Poplars, Wayside...
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    bottom few layers of brick remain. Bramcote Manor House dates back to the Elizabethan period. Bramcote Memorial Hall in Church Street commemorates victims...
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    Thuggees Rid, Samuel. "Martin Markall, Beadle of Bridewell," in The Elizabethan Underworld, A. V. Judges, ed. pp. 415–416. George Routledge, 1930. Online...
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    hotel in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka, that was built in the style of an Elizabethan-era manor house. The hotel has 154 rooms, including three presidential...
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    July and August 2012, and in early September 2012, he presented The New Elizabethans on Radio Four, a programme about notable people under the reign of Queen...
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  • Century James L. Clifford c-14m January 2, 1958 English Literature: The Elizabethan Period Douglas Bush c-13m January 8, 1958 English Literature: The Romantic...
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    examples of barong mahaba usually had high-standing collars or even Elizabethan-style ruffs with narrow cravats. Barong mahaba were generally worn with...
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    century saw the flowering of Elizabethan literature, with poetry heavily influenced by Italian Renaissance literature but Elizabethan theatre a distinctive native...
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    agricultural settlement, with a weekly market being held until the mid-Elizabethan era. The construction of turnpike roads in the mid-18th century and the...
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