As passions continue to rise in this country, it is interesting to compare our situation with that of the English Civil War ...

As Ed Miliband pushes for rapid green energy expansion, tensions rise within Labour ranks. Is this the dawn of a new era or a ...

In the remote reaches of rural Northumberland – one of England's most beautiful yet under-appreciated ... of a human ...

In the second part of the Great Revolutions series, Dominic Alexander charts how plebian radicals drove parliament to take ...

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 ...

The war began in 1642 between supporters of King Charles I's absolute rule and those who believed Parliament should run England ... The conflict was a series of civil wars which began in 1642 ...

Historians review the problems of re-building a region destroyed by four years of bitter war. "This is a white man's government" "We regard the Reconstruction Acts (so called) of Congress as ...

Framed by Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses,” the episode ends with Mary being carried aboard a vessel bound for New England and Foster ... documentary that the Civil War gave American men an ...

Inspired by abolitionist Sarah Grimké, this novel tackles themes of slavery and women's rights in early 19th-century Charleston This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel reimagines the Underground Railroad as ...