People who criticise mispronunciations are often guilty of snobbery towards regional dialects, a top linguist has claimed. In ...

So, Puritans and Pilgrims came out of the same religious culture of 1570s England. They diverged in the early 1600s, but wound up 70 years later being one and the same in the New World.

The Puritans were a group behind the religious ideology known as “Puritanism”, a type of early modern Reformed Protestantism that was born within the Church of England. They started as a ...

On Puritans A critique of the Puritans, on the 300th anniversary of the Mayflower's arrival at Plymouth Harbor.

Today’s Puritans have shown in innumerable ways that they have seen through the myth and have moved on: from refusing to consider Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominees to rejecting the results ...

These New Puritans are back with their first new album in six years. The art-rock duo of twin brothers Jack and George Barnett have announced that Crooked Wing is coming out on May 23, and it will ...

While the three friends have seen their careers soar over the intervening years, they’ve returned to collaborate time and time again—notably on the ravishing visuals for These New Puritans ...

Puritans, the religious fanatics of the 17th century Massachusetts Bay Colony, were part of a political movement that flopped. Centuries later, the Trump administration is institutionalizing ...

Puritans believed they must seek out and convert Native Americans so as to “raise them to godliness.” Tens of thousands of Puritans therefore poured into Massachusetts Bay Colony in what became known ...

The American Puritans of the 1630s and beyond were more ardent, and nervous about salvation, than the Pilgrims of the 1620s. Puritans tightly regulated both church and society and demanded proof ...

Puritans and Native Americans in the 1630s and beyond Dominated by hundreds of Puritan clergy, Massachusetts Bay Colony was all about emigration, expansion and evangelization during this period.