On April 4, 1942, the diarist Henry “Chips” Channon and a few of his friends paid a visit to Wells Cathedral—one of England’s early Gothic treasures—in the southwest county of Somerset. Having spent ...

Scholars say Aethelstan was likely the first king of England. But the story of his rise to power is complex. A portrait of Aethelstan, who was King of England from 924 until 939 A.D, in a book ...

How much do you really know about the history of the United Kingdom? What passes for “British history” is, all too often, merely the history of England with bits of the histories of Scotland, Wales ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at HistoryToday.com. Following his defeat at the Battle of Worcester in September 1651, Charles Stuart found ...

LONDON - The late Queen Elizabeth II will be memorialized during a state funeral at Westminster Abbey in London, where she’ll join the ranks of British monarchs and other significant figures in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Englishness is in crisis, again. The self-conscious agonising over our national “character” — and how far we ...

Katherine Butler is a member of the Handbell Ringers of Great Britain and services on their Education Committee. Ahead of King Charles’s coronation on May 6 2023, there have been reports of a national ...

There have been only eight reigning queens in the history of the British monarchy Stephanie Kaloi is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She has also written ...