From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...

Elizabeth I died childless so was succeeded by her cousin, James VI of Scotland, who henceforth assumed the title of James I of England as well. James's accession meant that the three separate ...

Please note that until the Census was introduced in 1801, in England, Wales and Scotland, all population figures are estimates. The population map features ... during the 1600s and 1700s.

the last great medieval church erected in England. And sometime in the 1300s, a new thermal bath was built. But Bath's heyday passed, and by the middle of the 1600s, it was just a huddle of huts ...