A rare and historical miniature map playing card, Northumberland VI (6) Clubs, is expected to fetch £80-120 at auction.

Samuel Browne's botanical explorations in 17th-century Madras offer insights into traditional plant uses and changing flora ...

Whittington Hall, an English national heritage site, is a grand country house that was built in the 19th century for a member ... When treasure is found in England, it legally must be turned ...

What was it like living in the 17th century? A family in late 17th-century England led a simple, not to mention laborious, life. A majority of the population lived in a one- or two-room house, which ...

Battles took place between 1642 and 1651, and Sheffield Castle prepared its walls to defend against invaders. Now, archaeologists working on excavating the castle have discovered defensive stakes ...

A witchcraft trial in England, 17th century. A suspected witch is lowered into the water to find out whether she would survive. If she did, she would be regarded as a witch. Witchcraft was a ...

This past week, beavers were legally released into the English countryside for the first time since they were hunted into ...

You’ll remember, around a decade ago, when Bridlington stood in for Walmington-on-Sea in the (let’s be honest, fairly poor) ...

“What makes Alain’s discovery so very important is that it provides the link between the church architecture plan used at Jamestown in 1608 and plans later in the 17th century elsewhere in ...

Elias Ashmole, a 17th-century politician and collector John ... director of the Shakespeare Institute at England’s University Of Birmingham, tells the New York Times’ Amelia Nierenberg.

Joe Root's long-awaited return to ODI century form has helped England stage a comeback in the crucial group match of the Champions Trophy against Afghanistan. Root scored his 17th ODI hundred--his ...