Magnet fishers have discovered a 350-year-old cannonball thought to have been used during the English Civil War. The group were carrying out a search of the River Lochy in the Scottish Highlands – ...

The English Civil Wars were a series of battles fought ... by Parliament to raise taxes in support of the Parliamentarians’ war effort. This particular one outlines the case of a woman named ...

As a result, during the English Civil War the castle became a Royalist stronghold. Guernsey itself, however, supported the Parliamentarians. The island and the castle exchanged cannon and musket ...

Basing House was a thorn in Parliament’s side. Commanding the road to London (held by the parliamentarians) the mansion hampered the city’s communications and its prosperous wool trade. It was ...