Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...

This is no ordinary Welsh fortress; it holds a special place in the history of one of England’s most famous monarchs ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: ...

April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the ...

A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired ...

Tom Watson tells the story of Bishop Peter Mews wounded many times in the First English Civil War and, 40 years later, at the ...

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The Historic Banners project would be a way to celebrate and commemorate Worcester's unique connection to the English Civil ...

A powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar and neighboring Thailand on Friday, destroying buildings, bridges and a monastery. At ...

The end of the war greatly eased the English government's near bankrupt financial state. England and Spain were at peace for the next 50 years. In 1604, a group of English Catholics, angered by ...