The day Leicester was invaded by an army - 376 years ago amid the brutality of civil war. The Royalists stormed the city during the English Civil War. leicestermercury.

The west of England was a hotbed of action during the Civil War. Dr John Wroughton examines why Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire were so fiercely contested by both royalists and ...

The Royalists close Royalist A person who supported King Charles I during the English Civil Wars., or ‘Cavaliers’. This name comes from the French term chevalier , which refers to a knight who ...

Archaeologists have unearthed artifacts believed to be from the final battle of the English Civil War, ... 1651, as the Parliamentarian New Model Army defeated King Charles II's Royalists.

Some of the proclamations of loyalty to Charles may sound strange, now we have a King Charles again. For the past half century, The King's Army, a royalist branch of the English Civil War Society ...

A cannon set off a car alarm at an English Civil War re-enactment in Chippenham at the weekend. The event, at Monkton Park throughout Saturday and Sunday, recreated the 17th Century Royalist ...

In a very real sense, Gell – and therefore the battle flag about to go on public display in the National Army Museum – represents the extraordinary complexity of England’s Civil War.

Worcestershire County Council. The English Civil War came to its bloody conclusion in 1651 at the Battle of Worcester.Though there’s tons of historical documentation of the battle, the physical ...

The English Civil War (1642-1651) was a series of armed conflicts between the Royalists, who supported King Charles I, and the Parliamentarians, who sought to limit his power and establish a ...

English Civil War slaughter at Abingdon recalled on ... Abingdon’s fate caused Royalist in-fighting that succeeded only in wounding the King ... and command of a brigade in the King’s army.

The find includes more than 1,000 gold and silver coins that were likely hidden during the first English Civil War. Betty and Robert Fooks unexpectedly unearthed the 17th-century hoard at their ...