Until recently, it seemed we, Britons, would do anything to get the attention of the world’s most powerful superpower. Up to and including becoming embroiled in ill-conceived wars in Iraq and ...
Ahead of Charles III’s ceremony, here’s what you need to know about the origins and evolution of the centuries-old tradition History of Now Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History ...
Britain was already well on its way to an industrialized economy under the reign of the Stuarts in the 17th century—over 100 years before textbooks mark the start of the Industrial ...
The British Open, more formally known as The Open Championship or simply known as The Open, is the oldest golf tournament in the world. It is one of the most prestigious championships in the world, ...
On a cloud-spackled Sunday last June, protesters in Bristol, England, gathered at a statue of Edward Colston, a seventeenth-century slave trader on whose watch more than eighty thousand Africans were ...
British soldiers look on during blasting operations of the houses of Arab inhabitants of mandate Palestine, circa 1939 (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann / Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung / ullstein bild via ...
Ian Cawood does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Everyone should study history, and here are 20 books I think everyone should read. They are expressly not the “best” history books ever written: no one can possibly have read the tens of thousands in ...
An example of a probate inventory from England in the late 17th century. This is the inventory of John Booth, a victualler (supplier of food and alcohol) from Macclesfield in the county of Cheshire, ...
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