The geophysical survey is believed to show what could be faint signs of Civil War trenches Possible evidence of an English Civil War siege has emerged following a survey of the Hampshire countryside.

In the cold autumn of 1643 Susan Rodway wrote to ‘my king love’, her husband Robert. A candlemaker by trade, he was away fighting for Parliament and she hadn’t heard much from him, unlike her ...

In 1601, Queen Elizabeth I made her third visit to the magnificent mansion of Basing House, near Basingstoke, writes Mark Turnbull. It proved to be her last, for she died two years later, leaving the ...

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Sent to defend Basing House, they endured more than two years of siege warfare, that cruellest of human experiments, brought to vivid life – and death – in Jessie Childs’s compelling retelling. The ...

Possible evidence of an English Civil War siege has emerged following a survey of the Hampshire countryside. Geophysical studies of Basingstoke Common show what experts think could be a trench system ...