We all know the history of Guy Fawkes and the infamous gunpowder plot – but were Northumberland’s very own Percy cousins ...

Algernon, 6th Duke was a Captain in the Grenadier Foot Guards ... Alnwick Castle in Northumberland. Katherine, wife of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, who died on 28th October 1596, was buried in ...

The Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is for sale for £35m ... from 1095 for a century before being passed to the second Henry Percy of Alnwick in 1328. Mr Bridgett said England needed laws ...

Smithson was the inheritor of the fortune and lands of the Percy family of Northumberland, whose ancestor, Sir Henry Percy, commonly known as ‘Harry Hotspur’, inspired Tottenham Hotspur’s name and its ...

This one was probably made in Italy and came to England in the 1590s. It was owned by Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, who was also known as the 'Wizard Earl' because of his interest in ...

Henry died on Saturday in Dawson City, Yukon. He's believed to have been 96 years old, though his exact birth date is not known. "They don't really know how old Percy is because he was born in the ...

Your support makes all the difference. Parts of Northumberland are experiencing “severe flooding” amid “extreme conditions”, an MP has warned. Blyth and Ashington MP lan Lavery said on ...

During this period the Northern Earls were very powerful. When Elizabeth came to the throne she tried to limit their power by putting Southern lords in charge of some of their lands. The Northern ...

HENRY V: The Astonishing Triumph of England’s Greatest Warrior King, by Dan Jones Why read a new, 400-page biography of England’s King Henry V? Because, writes the best-selling historian and ...

Parts of Northumberland are experiencing “severe flooding” amid “extreme conditions”, an MP has warned. Blyth and Ashington MP lan Lavery said on Tuesday evening that his office had “taken numerous ...