Within less than a decade, Charles’s ‘reign of peace’ had imploded and the two amateur impresarios found themselves on opposing sides in the ensuing civil war – Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605–75) as a ...

IT was in this week of 1645 that the second Battle of Inverlochy took place as part of the tumultuous 17th century War of the Three Kingdoms, ...

in August 1642 Charles attempted to arrest five members of parliament. This was now more serious than anyone could have imagined: a breakdown in communication had now turned into civil war, a conflict ...

This month marks 371 years since the execution of King Charles I ... This followed years of war with his fellow countrymen. However, what people tend to forget is that Devon actually played a ...

Charles Wilmott, 60 Church Hill, Royston, Barnsley, South Yorkshire. S71 4NG, England. Rwanda is a picturesque country ... In the 90s, the park's infrastructure was damaged during the civil war, but ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

July 1, 1916—the first day of the Battle of the Somme became the bloodiest day in British military history. Over 57,000 soldiers were lost in mere hours, in a battle that was both a disaster and a ...

Archaeologists believe they found a residence of medieval ruler Harold Godwinson, England’s last Anglo-Saxon king. A nearby church and toilet were vital clues.

King Charles III is paying tribute to the D.C. plane crash victims. After a commercial plane crash in Washington, D.C., killed 67 people, leaving no surviving victims, the British monarch paid ...

Charles I was crowned in Westminster Abbey on 2nd February 1626. Due to religious difficulties his wife was not crowned with him For the first time ever at a coronation the anthem "I was glad" was ...

His coffin plate had a Latin inscription which can be translated "The remains of the Most Noble and Serene Prince Charles II, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith etc.