Recent years have brought record-breaking wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters supercharged by climate change. But even to our jaded modern eyes, the weather that befell Bristol in ...

This paper was given at a conference and first published in Studien uber die Revolution, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1969. When we compare or contrast the English Revolution of the 17th century with the ...

The Incarnation, and Passion Lord, when Thou didst Thyself undress, Laying by Thy robes of glory, To make us more, Thou wouldst be less, And becam’st a woful story. To put on clouds instead of light, ...

In the early 1600s, the officials running Durham Cathedral, in England, had serious financial problems. Soaring prices had raised expenses. Most cathedral income came from renting land to tenant ...

Usually carried out in a public context, book burning is a method of censoring cultural, religious or political opposition. Shutterstock/Collin Hawley Free speech is the right to express one’s ...

According to historian and metal-detector enthusiast Jim Bailey, the handful of 17th-century Arabic coins unearthed at sites across New England could be remnants of an infamous pirate’s last big score ...

PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND—A wall and a slipway for launching boats into the water were revealed last month during a storm off England’s southeastern coast, according to a report in The News. Alex Godden of ...

A team of scholars at NC State University has recreated the sights and sounds of St. Paul's Cathedral and its environs in 1620s London, offering anyone who is interested a glimpse of daily life four ...

Aerial views of the Chatsworth Estate in Derbyshire have shown fascinating traces of an ornamental arrangement of flower beds and paths called 'The Great Parterre'.

A Georgian house in England with a wavy garden wall, an outdoor pool, tennis court and a boating lake, listed last week for £2.5 million (US$3.1 million). The six-bedroom Grade II-listed house named ...