"An eye for detail
A POINT OF VIEW
By Lisa Jardine
It's a story you think you know through and through. But how often does it turn out that in the retelling, a crucial detail has been misremembered?
.....But I begin with a little known story retrieved from the archives, that sheds some intriguing light on a piece of long-buried Elizabethan history. In the Beyazit Devlet Library in Istanbul is a document in Turkish, which contains an account of an exchange of gifts between the rulers of England and the Ottoman Empire in the 1590s:"
More:BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | An eye for detail
