Battles took place between 1642 and 1651, and Sheffield Castle prepared its walls to defend against invaders. Now, archaeologists working on excavating the castle have discovered defensive stakes ...

Simon Roper explained how the standard British accent was developed in the 1700s by aristocrats to distinguish themselves ...

British mercantilism flourished during the middle of the 17th century at a time when England was flexing its muscle in the New World. The idea behind this economic policy was that the colonies existed ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a ... a steady stream of German immigrants began to arrive in the late 1600s and reached its peak between 1749 and 1754, when more than ...

Catastrophes such as the Black Death played their part in keeping population figures down, and reduced the number of the British people ... increases during the 1600s and 1700s.

The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...