amidst the turmoil of the English Civil War. That checks out, Waseem Ahmed, a doctoral student of history at University College London with expertise in 17th-century British political history ...

A 17th-century painting looted by Nazis from the home of a Jewish Belgian art collector is being returned to his family by ...

The end of the war ... the English throne. The first Africans who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia were not slaves but indentured servants. However, over the course of the 17th century their status ...

Magna Carta was later appropriated by those resisting authority, not least during the 17th Century English civil war. It was one of the great revolts of medieval Europe, only three decades since ...

The wooden stakes were discovered in the moat of Sheffield's former castle The first surviving Civil War wooden stake defences ... Mr Tuck said discovering the 17th Century stakes was "what ...

Dr. Leah Veronese from Oxford University's English Faculty has unearthed a rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th-century poetry collection. This treasure ...