Archaeologists have discovered a 150-year-old "witch bottle" used to ward off evil spirits in a Civil War-era fort in ...

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen troops. But it’s come to anchor the unofficial start of ...

Wiltshire's happiest place to live Devizes and its historical links to English Civil War and popular Wadworth Brewery.

The two-day event will explore the town's role in the first English Civil War A historical event will ... beat Lord Capel and all his cavaliers." The Militias of Anglia said the victory was ...

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861 ... a religious pluralism that coincided with a cavalier attitude towards wealth.

Literature fed on itself, and external narratives, whether they involved Tudor politics or Wilfred Owen’s war or Thomas Hardy’s Dorset, were off the menu. Only a selection of our reviews and articles ...

Choosing Sides in the English Civil War'. In this second episode, we hear about some of the bloodiest battles between Roundheads and Cavaliers, the leaders who came to the fore during these trying ...

C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman cast the English civil war of the 17th century as a conflict between the “Wrong but Romantic” Cavaliers and the “Right but Revolting” Roundheads. The aftermath ...

Ruins of the church of San Agustín in the old town of Belchite, scene of one of the symbolic battles of the Spanish Civil War.ANDREA COMAS (Reuters) Among the 25 places on the most recent WMF watch ...

Strategic crossroad - Once home to nearly 100,000 people, Maaret al-Numan was devastated by years of war, turning it into a ghost town and a symbol of Syria's destruction ... declining to elaborate.

He died in 1889. He was originally laid to rest in an unmarked grave, a Civil War veteran all but lost to history. "No one knew about Sandy Wills," said Cheryl wills, Sandy's great-great-great ...

For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. The simple copper and ...