They were given in a wartime speech (now known as “The Few”) in the British House of Commons 85 years ago on Aug. 20, 1940.

An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s ...

Queen Elizabeth II's wardrobe was a powerful diplomatic tool, with each outfit a deliberate statement of duty and ...

When war disrupts supply chains and rations grow thin, hunger becomes a powerful motivator for culinary creativity.

Back in 1949, Ealing Studios released their comedy classic Whisky Galore! starring Basil Redford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson. Scottish islanders off the coast of the Outer Hebrides ...

The Battle of Britain ended 85 years ago today—closing a months-long air war with clear parallels to the ongoing fight in the skies over Ukraine.

In a bonus edition of our defence newsletter, Richard Cockett takes us back to 1066—and the Battle of Hastings ...

You can thank Big Oil for believing it's up to individuals to stop climate change. Gee, I wonder why they'd shift blame like ...

Back in 2018, Mike Newell directed Lily James in British World War 2 movie The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. The romantic drama is based on the 2008 novel of the same and follows a ...

As public purse strings tighten, major U.K. museums are racing to outdo each other with ever more splashy fundraising schemes. The British Museum is the latest to turn heads this week with the ...

There is a joke about heaven and hell, and the positions various European nationalities would fill in each; it's a bit too involved to tell here, but the gist of it is that, in hell, the cooks are ...