Discovered in southern England, the collection features dozens of gold and silver coins dating to the 15th and 16th centuries—including several inscribed with the initials of Henry VIII’s wives Blaming the British for the destruction helped persuade some wavering colonists to back the fight for independence.

The UK government has belatedly recognised a Palestinian state, but memories of British repression in “mandate Palestine” linger — if the UK is sincere about wanting to foster a peaceful future, it needs to reckon with the past.

The New Yorker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative podcast returns with a six-part series that asks whether one of the U.K.’s most famous murder cases ended with a wrongful conviction.

A group of history scholars is questioning whether viewers should trust the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), accusing the national broadcaster of presenting a slanted view of the nation's history. "The BBC, of all institutions, should never accept ...

Sky HISTORY launched 30 years ago, so what was life like for Brits back then? We sum up the UK’s biggest cultural, sporting and political moments of 1995.

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, ourselves. Many Struggles: New Histories of African and ...

Before Chris Dennis, a.k.a. La Voix, found fame on RuPaul's Drag Race U.K. and the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, he worked as a makeup artist in London — where, in 2009, he unwittingly played a role in one of the biggest robberies in British history.