A favourite book of my childhood was Our Island Story, H E Marshall’s magisterial (and chronological) account of this country’s history. Twenty years ago, this newspaper and the think tank Civitas ...

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 ...

Perhaps the greatest unsolved mystery in British royal history is that of the Princes in the Tower. In 1483, The Princes Edward (Edward V of England) and Richard (Duke of York) were just 12 and 9 ...

Archaeologists in Britain uncovered a rare Anglo-Saxon “princely” grave with a horse, linking the burial to elite traditions.

Therefore, Unbothered has curated seven must-read Black British history books that challenge the distorted depictions of our past and have marred our understanding of a people, and more personally, ...

Four female fashion models, who are wearing some pieces from Mary Quant's new autumn/winter collection, London, May 1975 Four female fashion models, who are wearing some pieces from Mary Quant's new ...

The second installment of Simon Schama's marvelous take on British history airs this week on The History Channel. Spanning 1558-1800, the seven-hour miniseries picks up where last fall's triumphant 7 ...

Millions of historical employment records show the British workforce turned sharply towards manufacturing jobs during the 1600s -- suggesting the birth of the industrial age has much deeper roots, say ...