Residents of Cromwell House Care Home, the birthplace of Oliver Cromwell, were taken back to the 1600s. A representative of the Cromwell Museum visited the home on Huntingdon High Street, which stands ...

Were the monks on drugs? How The Book of Kells went fully psychedelic Spirited to Ireland to save it from the Vikings, this wild illumination of the New Testament, full of gilded curls and coils, is ...

Today in History for Dec. 16: ...

Birth of Catherine of Aragon in Madrid. 1497: Portuguese ...

For the first time in over 370 years, a Christmas Day Mass will be celebrated in the ruins of a county Offaly church which ...

Residents of the historic Cromwell House Care Home, birthplace of Oliver Cromwell, took a trip down memory lane right back to ...

Dunnottar Castle in Aberdeenshire was once a thriving fortress and Royal residence, but it fell into ruin after its owner ...

Here we are again with the same old formula, the same old characters and the familiar complete and total absence of wit ...

Oliver Cromwell’s conduct in Ireland between 1649 and 1650 appals even his admirers. The slaughter of civilians as well as soldiers within the walled towns of Drogheda and Wexford smacked more of the ...

But even in supposed victory, his gloating found few echoes; the so-called War on Christmas, rather than ending in climactic ...

It was at Pembroke Castle on January 28, 1457 that Margaret gave birth to a son, whom she named Henry. A tower thought to ...