English Civil War

Brereton's journal is a book made up of letters from the English Civil War (1642-1646). A Parliamentary general, Sir William was engaged in the ...

The many influences of the past on our diet make the concept of British food very hard to define. The Celts, Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans ea...

JANE WHORWOOD (1612-84) was one of Charles I''s closest confidantes. The daughter of Scots courtiers at Whitehall and the wife of an Oxfordshire sq...

Wife to Edward IV and mother to the Princes in the Tower and later Queen Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Widville was a central figure during the War ...