Considering how Britain’s intellectual, political and creative circles responded to the French Revolution. By Dr. Ruth MatherPostdoctoral Research...
Great Britain
Great Britain’s history stretches from ancient settlement and Roman conquest to industrial power and modern transformation, shaped by the changing relationship among England, Scotland, and Wales.
British Library, Public Domain How early Asian settlers earned a living and made a home in Britain. ...
“East India House,” by Thomas Malton the Younger (1748-1804) / Yale Center for British Art, Wikimedia Commons...
HMS Empire Windrush / Royal Navy official photographer, Wikimedia Commons Looking at some of the forgotten voyages that brought...
Engraved illustration from Harper’s Weekly newspaper of the wedding of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and...
This could come to blows. zoetnet, Creative Commons There’s something every Scot should know about those caterwauling pipes. By...
Rewriting history from the air. William S Hanson Scrutinizing archives of aerial photography, we have been able to...
Detail, Phidias(?), Parthenon Frieze, c. 438-32 B.C.E., pentelic marble (420 linear feet of the 525 that complete...
Sky Atlantic We think of the Druids as being embedded in British culture from the mists of ancient times. But what we think we know...
Mikladalur, Faroe Islands / Photo by Davide Gorla, Wikimedia Commons The Faroe Islands could have been inhabited 500 years earlier...
Cat’s Brain long barrow is near the more famous Stonehenge (pictured) but predates it by hundreds of...
Vuk Kostic/www.shutterstock.com Historic heroes like King Arthur have helped audiences through the ages to cope with troubling times. By Dr. Raluca Radulescu /...
Portrait of Thomas Wolsey, artist unknown, late 16th century — National Portrait Gallery via Wikimedia Commons Characterised as...
Centre for the Study for Christianity and Culture, University of York., Author provided New archaeological research on Glastonbury Abbey...
Medieval teaching scene. gallica.bnf.fr / BnF Back in the Middle Ages, as well as speaking English and Latin, many people living inBritain also...
The Globe Theatre, Panorama Innenraum, London / Photo by Maschinenjunge, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Kevin Seiffert and...
Tom Booth, Author provided Turns out the Egyptians weren’t the only ones who mummified their dead. By Dr. Tom Booth / 11.24.2015 Wellcome...
Effigy of Eleanor of Aquitaine in the church of Fontevraud Abbey – By Adam Bishop – Own work, CC...
Across 18th-century Europe, admiration for Britain reshaped politics, literature, philosophy, gardening, travel, and national identity, reaching its...