Basing House was a thorn in Parliament’s side. Commanding the road to London (held by the parliamentarians) the mansion hampered the city’s communications and its prosperous wool trade. It was ...

Tom Watson tells the story of Bishop Peter Mews wounded many times in the First English Civil War and, 40 years later, at the Battle of Sedgemoor.

Exactly 400 years ago this month, King James I of England died and his son, King Charles I, took the throne. In 1625, no one ...

Mary Penington, who lived through the turbulent years of the English Civil War, is well known amongst Quakers as the mother-in-law of William ...

If you’re hunting for an adrenaline-packed day out near Cardiff, Zip World Tower in Aberdare is calling your name! Located in the picturesque Rhigos mountain range, this adventure hub is home to ...

When Christianity became state-sponsored under leaders such as Constantine and Theodosius, governments systematically ...

While these changes may have been added to make the sonnet easier to sing, it is also likely that the advent of the English Civil War in 1642 encouraged the reworking of popular poems, songs, and ...

It is a brave, some might say foolish writer who embarks on a history of the English Civil War these days. The grand historical narratives of the war that raged from 1642 to 1649, written by the likes ...

Rather than one continuous conflict, the English Civil War was a series of smaller civil wars from 1642 to 1651, and following the Second Civil War in 1648, Parliament took steps to prevent Royalist ...

The last battle of the First English Civil War took place in the early morning of 21st ... eat properly and converse politely. And yet in 1642 we went to war with ourselves ...