Gerrard Winstanley led a small band of radicals whose vision of justice encompassed the globe and continues to inspire ...

“It’s exciting, because although we know a lot about 17th-century ships like the wreck of the Batavia ... The Koning Willem de Tweede was part of a broader effort in the mid-19th century to transport ...

The adapted sonnet had been made into a song set to music by Henry Lawes, a leading English songwriter of the mid-17th century ... “star” that guides errant ships, and “the self-blinding ...

The Royal Navy grew substantially during a series of major wars from the mid 17th century – and with it the medical needs of naval seamen. Ship surgeons had a weighty responsibility. As well as ...

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Tower Bridge will be opened to let the 500-ton ship pass through A full-sized replica of a 17th-century Spanish merchant ship is due to arrive in London. Tower Bridge will be opened to let the 500 ...

the Age of Discovery, which lasted from the mid-15th century to the 17th ... deck (hammocks only became common on sailing ships in the 17th century). The masts attached to the hull can be up ...

A 17th century hurricane that occurred ... nothing happens during that time period of mid-July to late September," Butler said. "Ships are not coming and going in the port because it's just ...

Experts believe that the ship, identified as a Barbary corsair (or pirate ship) from the 17th century, was most likely headed to the Spanish coast to capture and enslave locals, Live Science reported.

In the deep waters between Morocco and Spain, wreck-divers discovered a pirate ship that may have sailed ... provides a glimpse into what the 17th century seas may have looked like.

In the mid-17th century, Hackney was a leading site of girls’ education in England with the school at Sutton House established in 1657. It was a boarding school for middle and upper-class girls.