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Historians Trace Lives of Scots Soldiers Imprisoned in Durham CathedralDurham researchers have been investigating what happened to around 3,000 Scottish soldiers who were imprisoned in Durham Cathedral. After the Battle of Dunbar, in 1650 – between an English army commanded by Oliver Cromwell and Scots loyal to Charles II – the Scottish prisoners were marched down to Durham and herded into the cathedral, where…Read the story →