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

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, ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: No matter how good, no military is perfect. For centuries, the sun never set on the British Empire. But eclipses there were, and more than a few that stained British arms ...

Labour ministers have been accused of creating “a dark moment in British history” in their latest crackdown on illegal immigration. Changes announced by the Home Office mean that anyone arriving via ...

Explore all of British history, from the Neolithic to the present day, with this easy-to-use interactive timeline. Browse hundreds of key events and discover how the past has shaped the world we live ...

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 ...

Stonehenge was built by black people, a new children's history book has claimed. Readers of Brilliant Black British History, by the Nigerian-born British author Atinuke, are told the neolithic ...

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 ...

Harewood House has a troubled history, but, like many other buildings in Britain, this past is not obvious at first. The 18th century Yorkshire country house, with its opulent rooms full of exquisite ...