A historical event will allow people in Shropshire to experience 17th Century England and learn about one town's role in the English Civil War. Wem 1643: A Seventeenth Century Weekend will be held at ...

Editor’s note: Another in a series of occasional stories about York County in the American Revolution, part of the buildup in ...

In 1694, a lovelorn inquirer wrote to The Athenian Mercury, a periodical published by the English printer John Dunton, with a ...

Since the introduction of gunpowder to battlefields in the Middle Ages, firearms have been a deciding factor in battles for ...

Christopher Hill’s work on 17th-century England has been remarkably influential. In books like The World Turned Upside Down, ...

Originating in India during colonial rule and inspired by a traditional dish containing lentils, this combination of rice, ...

Its presence in a 17th-century engraving was conclusive proof that pterosaurs did not, as scientists had long claimed, go extinct millions of years before humans were around. In fact, these ...

In 1659 this Diamond corner was a jail that for a few days held William Edmundson ‘Quaker apostle to Ireland and the Americas’ - as his diary describes: Did you know with an ad-lite ...

Indian officials said the army had a brief exchange of fire with Pakistani soldiers along their highly militarized frontier in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, as the nuclear-armed rivals ...

Hungarian and Chadian soldiers are to hold a joint military exercise soon, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Tuesday. The exercise is a joint event of NATO allies and their African partners and ...

Days out from his 34th birthday, Handscomb whacked his 142 off 222 balls playing for Leicestershire, continuing a run of Australian century makers ... are playing in the English county season ...

Many also believe the oracle has predicted the return on the 17th century plague in the words: 'A great pestilence from the past returns, no enemy more deadly under the skies.' In an even more ...