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 ...

Magnet fishers have discovered a 350-year-old cannonball in the River Lochy, which is thought to have been used during the English Civil War.

Campbell, controller of the Scottish Committee of Estates, had agreed to intervene in the ongoing English Civil War, on the Parliamentarian ... Inverlochy Castle, the Parliamentarians began ...

The English Civil War (1642-1651) was a series of armed conflicts between the Royalists, who supported King Charles I, and the Parliamentarians, who sought to limit his power and establish a ...

This popular film location for the Crown may look like an ancient castle, and while it is the UK's oldest castle, it is also ...

before he was moved to Pontefract Castle where he died in February 1400 Royalists controlled Pontefract Castle at the start of the English Civil War and Oliver Cromwell led the final siege of the ...

Four blocks of 1960s flats in Pontefract town centre are to be demolished because they spoil the view of the town's 955-year-old castle ruins. Wakefield Council has given the go-ahead for Violet ...

Milton returned to England in 1639, a few years before the country devolved into civil war between parliamentarians and royalists.