The lead up to the Civil War of the 1640s is woven with issues relating to politics, economic and social change, and religion ...

Charles I became King of England in 1625. He fell out with the English Parliament for several reasons. The disputes escalated into a civil war in 1642. After nearly seven years of war, Charles was ...

This inauguration day, reading passages from the trial and disposition of Charles I (King of England, Scotland and Ireland, ...

King Charles I was ultimately convicted of tyranny and treason and sentenced to death at the trial, which took place in the aftermath of the English Civil War. The report, part of Leeds Central ...

On this day in 1649, King Charles I was led from St James's Palace to Banqueting House on Whitehall, in front of which he was beheaded, thus drawing a gory line under the English Civil War.

Edward Hyde and Bulstrode Whitelocke were teenage pals, but ended up in opposite ranks. Minoo Dinshaw’s outstanding book ...