Recent years have brought record-breaking wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters supercharged by climate change. But even to our jaded modern eyes, the weather that befell Bristol in ...

This paper was given at a conference and first published in Studien uber die Revolution, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1969. When we compare or contrast the English Revolution of the 17th century with the ...

Recent winter storms along England's southwestern coast have uncovered the preserved remains of a 17th-century ship at Studland Beach in Dorset, according to archaeologists.

The Incarnation, and Passion Lord, when Thou didst Thyself undress, Laying by Thy robes of glory, To make us more, Thou wouldst be less, And becam’st a woful story. To put on clouds instead of light, ...

Samuel Fullerton is a postdoctoral fellow in the History Department at Vanderbilt, where he teaches and writes on partisan politics in 17th-century England. Shortly after Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death ...

In 17th-century England, two astrologers-cum-physicians—Simon Forman and his protégé Richard Napier—built up a reputation for being able to diagnose and cure all manner of ailments, simply by looking ...

IN the first week of March, 1689, Sir Edmund Andros returned to Boston from an expedition against the Indians of Maine. He had now governed New England more than two years for King James II., ...