In April 1636, two aspiring lawyers, eager to make their way in the world, corresponded about the state of affairs in London.

On his death the manor passed to the 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, who fought in the bloody War of the Roses, where he eventually ...

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

No one knows exactly when the Easter Rock ceremony started or why, but it's said the tradition started before the Civil War.

In the Catholic hierarchy a red hat marks out a cardinal. They are the church’s most senior generals, with the red signifying ...

The Lord Mayor of Sheffield will unveil a statue in Weston Park of the world-famous artist Pablo Picasso, who visited the ...

Garland’s latest movie, Warfare, hit theaters with an unflinching look at what it’s like to be in a modern war. To celebrate ...

Pope Francis, 88, died of a stroke and heart failure, the Vatican said. Francis was last seen Sunday when he gave the ...

Long become a cultural punchline for campfire silliness, 'Kumbaya's' actually has a long and detailed folk story that surprises with its radical roots.

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

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.