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The Parliamentarians’ crushing defeat of Charles II’s army at Worcester finally brought to an end more than a decade of civil war in Britain. Historian Julian Humphrys explains…
Just before dawn on the 22nd September 1642, Colonel John Brown, who was riding with the Parliamentarian Cavalry searching for the Royalist wagons…
IT was, by any stretch of the imagination, an unusual building to house a cinema and probably one of the few anywhere that overhung the adjoining…
IT may be thought that England’s ability to produce drunken idiots dates back to the football hooliganism of the 1970s, when alcohol-fuelled fans…
THE thousands of people who travel every day down the steep descent of London Road towards Worcester city centre can be thankful they weren’t making the same journey in medieval times. Because then the highway was even more vertiginous. In fact, crosses were set up at the bottom to thank the Lord for getting down safely. Over the centuries, the route from the top of Red Hill to Sidbury Gate has seen many changes and the one used today is actually the line of an old turnpike coach road. Before that it ran a little to the south and can be traced almost all the way by a line of back l...