The Facebook page British History has a devoted but not particularly emotive following. Multiple times a day, it posts an image and factoid from, well, British history, to a handful of comments and ...

The Castle Inn, in Knucklas, near Knighton, has been recognised for its tasty pies yet again, with its ‘King of Pie’ earning a silver award at the 2025 showpiece, of course held in Melton Mowbray, the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Elon Musk’s role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is on the surface a dramatic effort to overhaul the inefficiencies of federal ...

Everything about the island is local and it is one of the few places in America where there are no hotel chains, no Starbucks ...

A campaigner said the latest battle to stop big housing developments being built near two villages felt like "groundhog day".

Rules are limited, but “no murder” was an early stipulation for the game that dates back to at least the 1600s. Good players need to be “hard, aggressive and authoritative,” said Mark Harrison, who ...

British Columbia health officials say another travel-related measles infection has been confirmed in the Lower Mainland, in a resident who visited Southeast Asia. Fraser Health says in a statement ...

Simon Roper explained how the standard British accent was developed in the 1700s by aristocrats to distinguish themselves from commoners.

Rules are limited but “no murder” was an early stipulation for the game that dates back to at least the 1600s. Good players need to be “hard, aggressive and authoritative,” says Mark ...

In 2024, British Columbia saw over 1,600 wildfires burn approximately one million hectares of land. Between April 21 and October 7, 2024, over seven thousand residents were evacuated from their homes.

Previous discoveries at Sheffield Castle include a “hidey-hole” left behind by a steelworker in a cellar as well as medieval tokens and newly discovered castle walls as the site “keeps revealing its ...

In the following centuries, the use of Irish was discouraged and suppressed, particularly during the English colonization of Ireland in the 1600s. The English government implemented policies to ...