Daniel Axtell was a Puritan and one of the few outright fanatics in the Parliamentarian Army. He started out as a 'Particular' Ba...

John Lilburne was a Leveller agitator and was for brief spell in 1647 the most dangerous man in England. The Levellers were a potentially re...

After the English Civil war was over, the Puritans were in charge, a 'godly government' that would do their damnedest to follow the...

Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel is a long forgotten engineering pioneer. He worked amongst the ferment of new ideas and new technologies of ea...

The Moon Lens is a discus shaped object twelve inches in diameter and a kilogram in weight. It is mainly made of a porous and crumbly grey ...

The gibbet was a metal cage in which dead criminals were displayed pour encourager les autres. They were pretty popular in England ...

As every good Puritan in 17th Century England knows the Society of Jesus, the shock troops of the Counter-Reformation, dabble freely ...