At the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, Warwick Castle was attacked by soldiers loyal to the king who tried without success to unseat the Parliamentarian forces that held it. While a minor ...

We are living in an age of civil war. Civil wars were almost nonexistent until the twentieth century. Except in a handful of cases—the American and English civil wars, the French Revolution—it was ...

In his new book, "The Rainborowes", writer and historian Adrian Tinniswood makes the arresting claim: In the 17th century, the people who had first crossed the Atlantic to build a biblical "city upon ...

IN THE DIN of traffic around Trafalgar Square, it is easy to miss the statue in the middle of the road that flanks it. Tiny in comparison with Nelson’s Column, and often obscured by passing buses, the ...