The journeys of 15th- and 16th-century European explorers are depicted on Cantino’s map including Vasco da Gama’s first voyage in search of a sea route to India (1497-99) and the “discovery ...

The fair has a jewel of a 16th-century illuminated manuscript, and other museum-quality items, but fewer standouts over all.

These actions were crimes in Tudor times. The 16th century saw the start of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. These Protestant ideas began to spread to England and Wales in the 1520s and ...