The final words in Simon Wilde's important history of the England cricket team conclude with where we are now: "Not only the future of the game in England, but the direction of the national team, were ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since the publication of my William the Conqueror in the Yale University Press English Monarchs series in October 2016, I have often been asked how long it took me to write the book. In response, I ...

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 ...

There is a pervasive sense that the hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants to Britain since the Industrial Revolution did not fare so well. This column compares the wealth at death and infant ...

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 ...

Old Trafford will play host to an England international fixture for the first time in 16 years on Monday, when the Three Lions take on North Macedonia in a qualifier for next summer’s European ...

Party like it's 1776? Any sporting clash between the United States and their English counterparts has plenty of revolutionary precedent. But the question remains: can the plucky Americans beat their ...