The United States marked its 250th anniversary this year. Since its independence in 1776, the U.S. territory has expanded approximately 11-fold, and its population has surged 135-fold. It became the ...
In modern Britain, all roads lead to London, but one can still find traces of older routes and borders that once subdivided ...
Britain was already well on its way to an industrialized economy under the reign of the Stuarts in the 17th century—over 100 years before textbooks mark the start of the Industrial ...
It has been ten years since Tate Britain last rehung its permanent collection and, in that time, museums have had something of a reckoning. Broad public and critical opinion have demanded that ...
Perhaps the greatest unsolved mystery in British royal history is that of the Princes in the Tower. In 1483, The Princes Edward (Edward V of England) and Richard (Duke of York) were just 12 and 9 ...
Pride in Britain's history has declined at a "startling" rate, said Philip Johnston in The Daily Telegraph, according to "depressing" findings in this year's British social attitudes survey. According ...
Millions of historical employment records show the British workforce turned sharply towards manufacturing jobs during the 1600s -- suggesting the birth of the industrial age has much deeper roots, say ...
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