If you wanted a book in the mid 17th century London there were plenty of bookshops and wandering chapmen walked the streets with pamphlets a...

England Upturn'd is now out, and you can buy it from Lamentations of the Flame Princess HERE  for the very reasonable sum of 16.50 Euro...

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 ...