James Bryce is mostly known today for his surveys of two of history’s great federations: The Holy Roman Empire and The ...

Each of us tells a story about who we are, often tracing our identity back through an imagined line of ancestors. Though identity is fundamentally cultural, we tend to anchor it in biology—in the idea ...

The Rest Is History' hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook turned a childhood love of history into a chart-topping podcast.

He gets teary when he thinks about the U.S. soldiers who stayed in his British village and then left for D-Day. “A lot of ...

Over the past year, The Associated Press asked Britons — from George Washington’s ancestral home near Scotland to Cambridge, Bristol and London — a neutral question: “What do you think of America now?

Ask Brits what they think of their former colonies in 2026, and they note these long-held views of America and Americans. But ...

Although the fact is often forgotten, the American colonists were not the only people who faced a political crisis in the ...

Humans may have returned to Britain far earlier than scientists once believed — not long after the last ice sheet began ...

Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest highlights the impact of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings on the island’s ancestry ...

Restore Britain received its latest high-profile endorsement last week when former Chelsea captain John Terry replied “100% yes” to an Instagram post by party founder Rupert Lowe wanting to “ban ...

For nine days in 1926 the United Kingdom was gripped by the first and only general strike in its history. Between 4-12 May more than two million workers downed tools in sympathy with members of the ...

13:06, Tue, Apr 21, 2026 Updated: 13:40, Tue, Apr 21, 2026 An iconic steam train will pass through parts of Northern England and Scotland this week as part of an epic tour that railway fans have paid ...