With their former countrymen divided and lacking a monarch after the English Civil War, Colonists seized an opportunity to ...

In a volume entitled "New England's First Fruits", published in London in 1643, an article on Harvard College, the College being evidently numbered among New England's "first fruits", a brief ...

THOMASTON, Maine, Aug. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, led by founder, appraiser, and auctioneer Kaja Veilleux, made history when a 17th ... in the New England fine ...

Jamestown, Virginia, was founded in 1607 and was the first English permanent settlement in America. It has been the subject ...

England, with colonizing ambitions of ... The homeless and the unemployed turned their hopes to the New World. Throughout the 17th century, between half and two-thirds of all white immigrants ...

The mid-17th Century New England shilling was found by Wentworth Beaumont at his family's home of Bywell Hall in Northumberland. The coin was struck in 1652 for use as currency by early settlers ...

A new objective clearly stated that the company ... to an average of over 20,000 a year. By the end of the 17th century, England led the world in the trafficking of slaves.

This is according to a new UK study called 100 Ballads ... Marsh says was ‘probably the best known ballad melody in 17th century England,’ definitely made the journey. Marsh says it was ...

The owner of a 17th century hall on the edge of Cambridge and Historic England have clashed over how ... by Trumpington Investments Ltd to build a new retirement village within the grounds of ...

The remains of a Shakespearean theatre, 17th Century shipwreck and bones ... funded by Historic England, in advance of a new lake and flood defence system being built. The waterlogged conditions ...

From a touching memoir about family to a fantasy-inspired bookstore, WBUR literature writer Katherine Ouellette shares a ...