Britain’s George III has gotten a bad rap. He was not the all-powerful monarch that President Trump allegedly aspires to be.

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing's business empire is in the crosshairs after CK Hutchison Holdings chose to sell its Panama ...

Match of the Day legend Alan Hansen accepted his MBE from Prince William on Tuesday, looking in good health and even better ...

Great Britain was not alone in this line of ... Trade became triangulated during the mid-1600s between the British Empire, its colonies, and foreign markets. This fostered the development of ...

McCartney has an ongoing collaboration with Adidas and was appointed Team Great Britain’s creative ... earned Beckham an Order of the British Empire honor in 2017, which she received from ...

The Moth, a two-seater airplane launched by Geoffrey de Havilland in 1925, was central to many of the great aviation feats ...

The fact that a routine diplomatic meeting unraveled into an event that reshaped the global order shocked many but has historical precedent. In numerous past incidents, what began as a trivial ...

Anthony R. Dolan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist-turned-chief-speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan ...

The 39-year-old will take the reins at Soho Estates next month, managing the £1 billion portfolio left to her and her sister ...

Time after time, modest commercial interests have grown into major ones, and great powers have deployed their militaries ... ensure that the war’s end also heralded the end of the British Empire.