William Adelin-the grandson of William the Conqueror and the heir to the thrones of England and Normandy-died at the age of ...

Newark was a very important location during the English Civil War in the 1640s, as King Charles I used it as a key Royalist stronghold and communications centre. The Nottinghamshire town was besieged ...

For this, Dan is joined by Minoo Dinshaw, author of 'Friends in Youth: Choosing Sides in the English Civil War'. In this first episode, we learn how subtle religious and political differences upset ...

Join us for the untold history of "War on Christmas" in the Plum Pudding Riots! This bizarre history made it to the states when Christmas was outright banned by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1659.

Charles I became King of England in 1625. He fell out with the English Parliament for several reasons. The disputes escalated into a civil war in 1642. After nearly seven years of war, Charles was ...

Liverpool, England (CNN) — Tucked away in ... their generation — fought on the Confederate side in the American Civil War. James, a foreign agent for the Confederacy, was sent to Liverpool ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...