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 ...

From Britain's distant Viking past right up to the D-Day landings, here are 15 of the most common misconceptions that many ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Britain today is consumed by its relationship with Europe. Almost three years after 52% of U.K. voters opted to leave the European Union, lawmakers and the public are still struggling to decide what ...

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 ...

MCU fans were thrilled at the sight of Peggy Carter in the first episode of What If…? on Disney+, clad in the flag of the United Kingdom, and kicking Nazi butt. However, despite appearances, Peggy was ...

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 ...