Britain has been shaped by turmoil between its nations, and tension between state and church. But centuries of conflict would ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rob Salkowitz is an Eisner-nominated comics journalist and author. This article is more than 3 years old. The British History ...

Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, an author and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Raised in London, Bergen has a ...

Sketches that attacked British Empire and made false claims about Florence Nightingale were ‘really careful’ over accuracy, says producer Craig Simpson is Arts Correspondent for The Telegraph covering ...

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, ...

From the British Admiralty came a simple three-word order that would go down in history: “Sink the Bismarck!” Just as it was poised to reach safety in France, the Bismarck was crippled by antiquated ...

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 ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

Just what drove the expansion of the British Empire into one of the largest in history? Kenneth Morgan weighs up whether it was the desire for greater trade or the thirst for conquest. The long 18th ...

What an early example of a dental bridge reveals about health, wealth and social values in the late medieval and early modern world New Research New research has identified four members of the doomed ...

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 ...