Some see Queen Elizabeth II's death as an opportunity to acknowledge the struggles of those who were affected by British ...

In the five restored period rooms, visitors can tread on original floors — the 18th-century room has floorboards that were scrubbed, per tradition, with sand — and recline on reproduction period ...

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 ...

The French Revolution sent shock-waves through Britain. While some watched transfixed, others were horrified. Simon Schama explores why the British proved immune to the siren call of liberty, equality ...

Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British ...

Britain’s history is intertwined with empire and colonialism. The UK was forged as a nation-state alongside, and partly to ...

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 ...

Throughout the month of October, Black History Month, which has been observed in the UK for more than 30 years, highlights and celebrates the contributions and achievements of people of African and ...

British colonials with a pet cheetah in Secunderabad, India, 1906. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images) In 2005, Britain’s then–Labour chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, chose the backdrop of ...