In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. Kent Paterson is a freelance journalist who covers the southwestern United States, the border region and Mexico. He ...

The King’s Army spends the summer months re-enacting historical events of the seventeenth century with The Roundhead Association at venues throughout the country. The English Civil War Society also ...

British soldiers fighting in the American Revolutionary War were unprepared for the terrain awaiting them across the Atlantic. Many thought that America was determined to destroy them; some felt it ...

The English baluster is one of the earliest classes of drinking glass. These were popular from the last years of the 17th century through to the first half of the 18th, and this early date makes them ...

The closest echo in art history for such a fiercely furrowed, lock-eyed, and, yes, trumpant glare is an out-of-the-way portrait from the paintbrush of the 17th-Century Italian Baroque artist ...

A fire broke out after two gas cylinders exploded inside a tent at the Maha Kumbh venue in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj, the police said. The fire spread to over 100 tents, burning them to the ...

But the industry as we understand it today really has its origins in the second half of the 19th century. Whilst the scientific revolution of the 17th century had spread ideas of rationalism and ...

The first half of the 20th century was a turbulent and transformative period for American and British culture. Women and men began to define themselves in very different ways, and one of the tools ...

A pious and strong-willed king, Charles exhibited from childhood the characteristics that would lead to his downfall. By Dr Richard Cust.

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are eager to leave miserable tent camps and return to their homes after the long-awaited ceasefire agreement halted the Israel-Hamas war, but many will find there is ...