The growth of the BBC Television and ITV after the Second World War encouraged more folk to want TV sets. The Coronation of ...

Queen Elizabeth I set all the trends at court - including her sugar-rotted teeth. Famous for her love of sugar and all things ...

Dating from the Georgian era, gentlemen's clubs were reserved exclusively for the aristocracy and the elite, to meet, drink, ...

The solitary moors of Bodmin have an ethereal, timeless quality which makes it fitting that they host many fascinating ...

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Around 500 members of English Civil War Society will be marching through central London to commemorate the death of King Charles I in 1649. The march starts around 11.15 am with the ceremony at Horse ...

Here you will find grouped together articles and features about traditional British food and drink, a vital part of British culture and what makes the Brits British!

On 24th January 1900 during the Second Boer War, in an area about the size of London’s Trafalgar Square, the flat top of a South African mountain became the killing field for hundreds of infantrymen ...

Became king following the death of his brother Æthelbald. Like his brother and his father, Aethelbert (pictured above) was crowned at Kingston-upon-Thames. Shortly after his succession a Danish army ...

This morning my choice of clothes was a rather a haphazard affair. Having planned to spend the day writing, I knew I wasn’t in need of anything spectacular, but even so, the leggings, slippers and ...