King Charles III led commemorations Monday on the 20th anniversary of the 2005 London transit bombings, the deadliest attack ...

In the Parliamentarian port of Poole the very idea of a pub named "The King's Head" would have been deeply provocative.

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” reshaped English literature.

Our expert historian and columnist surveys the historical field and picks a shelf’s work of books that every intelligent reader ought to own ...

The wacky ceremony that Canada had to complete before letting the King speak The ritual is rooted in traditions that predate European settlement in the Americas, and so old some of its precise ...

This compounded the Protestant Parliamentarian leaders' distrust of Charles I and ultimately led to his execution.

On this day in 1649, King Charles I was led from St James's Palace to Banqueting House on Whitehall, in front of which he was beheaded, thus drawing a gory line under the English Civil War.

The English Civil War had a lasting impact on the nation, with the defeat of the Royalists and the execution of King Charles I in 1649 sending waves throughout Europe.

On the day of his execution, Charles asked for two shirts to avoid trembling from the cold and being suspected of fear. At the very end, whatever his flaws, he exited bravely: one lifts one’s ...

The English Civil War began as part of this conflict series in 1642 and by the time Cromwell was named Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in June 1649, English monarch Charles I had been found guilty of ...

After his execution, they would remember Charles as the ‘White King’. For rich and poor alike – for the fiery young and the cynical old – clothing acquired a crucial role during the turbulent years of ...