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English civil war

January 2023

  • Coleshill Manor

    ‘Better than finding gold’: towers’ remains may rewrite history of English civil war

    Archaeologists say finding medieval gatehouse at Coleshill was ‘real shock’ and ‘highlight of our careers’

December 2022

  • Piers Court at Stinchcombe near Dursley, about halfway between Bristol and Cheltenham, England

    Evelyn Waugh’s once-beloved Cotswold mansion up for auction at £2.5m

    Grade-II*-listed eight-bedroom, six-bathroom Piers Court is where Waugh wrote many illustrious novels, including Brideshead Revisited

September 2022

  • Author Robert Harris

    Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris review – regicides on the run

    In 1660, after the Restoration of the monarchy, two of Oliver Cromwell’s soldiers fled to America to escape execution. Harris is at his best in this fictionalisation of their escape and the quest to find them

August 2022

  • Author Robert Harris. Buckinghamshire. 23/6/21

    Book of the day
    Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris review – a master writer leads us on a 17th-century manhunt

    This rich and riotous novel, following the search for two of the men who signed Charles I’s death warrant, is also an important book for our own historical moment

May 2021

  • A painting of King Charles 1 on horseback.

    Old political divides are finding new ground

    Letters: The ideological tensions between provincial and metropolitan England go further back than the collapse of Labour’s ‘red wall’, writes Robert Frazer, while Geoff Reid urges liberal-minded people not to live in clusters

April 2021

  • The Great Picture, 1646, Jan van Belcamp (c.1610–1653) (attributed to) Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Photo credit Lakeland Arts Trust

    The Great British Art Tour
    The Great British Art Tour: Lady Anne’s fight for rights, a story in three parts

    With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: The Great Picture at Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal

January 2020

  • Oliver Cromwell after Samuel Cooper<br>1656. Oil on canvas, feigned oval, 29 3/4 in. x 24 3/4 inches. Located in the National Portrait Gallery, London, England, UK. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Providence Lost by Paul Lay review – the rise and fall of Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate

    A compelling and wry narrative of one of the most intellectually thrilling eras of British history

July 2019

  • The execution of Charles I, 30 January 1649 by John Weesop (detail).

    Charles I’s Killers in America by Matthew Jenkinson review – regicides on the run

    How two of the men who signed Charles’s death warrant evaded their hunters makes for a delightful read, and had an influence on the American revolution

April 2018

  • The Eve of the Battle of Edge Hill by Charles Landseer.

    ‘A poor wench in man’s clothes’: English civil war cross-dressers unveiled

    Historian finds records of women posing as men in battle between royalists and parliamentarians

January 2018

  • Martin Kettle

    Don’t mention the civil war: the English are still fighting it

    Martin Kettle
    The Charles I exhibition at the Royal Academy has a historical hole at its heart, and so does our nation, writes Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

March 2017

  • Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament and establishes himself as lord protector of England in 1653.

    Oliver Cromwell by David Horspool review – Britain’s chance to be a republic

    Cromwell has controversially been included in the Penguin Monarchs series. This compelling book charts his rise to power

September 2015

  • Skeletons found next to Durham cathedral

    Skeletons found near Durham cathedral were Oliver Cromwell's prisoners

    Archaeologists shed new light on 365-year-old mystery by identifiying remains of one of bloodiest battles of English civil war

November 2014

  • Oliver Cromwell's burial plaque

    Oliver Cromwell burial plaque to be sold at auction

    Engraved bronze relic bears witness to Cromwell’s funeral in 1658 and ritual execution of his embalmed corpse in 1661

May 2014

  • Andrea Riseborough as Angelica and John Simm as Sexby
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    Your next box set
    The Devil's Whore – box set review

    Edward Tew: A woman's struggle for survival in the terror and turmoil of the English civil war makes for powerful drama

December 2013

  • Winstanley

    Reel history
    Winstanley: a film that digs deep into 17th-century religious activism

    This black and white biopic of Diggers founder Gerrard Winstanley's truly level take on these socialist ancestors never sacrifices authenticity for entertainment

September 2013

  • Battle of Marston Moor

    The Rainborowes: Pirates, Puritans and a Family's Quest for the Promised Land by Adrian Tinniswood – review

  • Pilgrim Fathers

    The Rainborowes: Pirates, Puritans and a Family's Quest for the Promised Land by Adrian Tinniswood – review

August 2013

  • Statue of Oliver Cromwell

    Rereading
    Tristram Hunt: rereading God's Englishman by Christopher Hill

    Oliver Cromwell: radical hero or bigot and murderer? Christopher Hill's study of Cromwell – a man at the centre of English history – is a triumph of complex interpretation and delicious prose.

July 2013

  • Green king … a statue of the Enlightenment philosopher David Hume on Edinburgh's High Street.

    The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters by Anthony Pagden – review

  • A Field in England – review

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