A pious and strong-willed king, Charles exhibited from childhood the characteristics that would lead to his downfall. By Dr Richard Cust.

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By Lucy Hughes-Hallett At the end of January 1645 – just three weeks after King Charles I’s favourite prelate, Archbishop Laud, had been executed for high treason – commissioners representing monarch ...

This followed years of war with his fellow countrymen. However, what people tend to forget is that Devon actually played a fundamental part during the English Civil War (1642-1651), as one of the key ...

Where, when and how did civilians organize during the Syrian civil war that started in the aftermath of the Arab Spring in 2011 and lasted until the toppling of President Bashar Assad in late 2024?

He was sentenced to death by Oliver Cromwell, became a key propogandist for the monarchy after it was restored but lost his status all over again during the Glorious Revolution. Now, a portrait of ...

Contemporaries couldn’t quite understand how it was that the English could go to war with ... with each revolution. Who were the Independents and the sectaries? Why was Charles I useless? What was so ...

including the US civil war of the 1860s, the early 20th-century Russian Revolution and the Taiping rebellion against the Chinese Qing dynasty, often said to be the deadliest civil war in history.