EXCLUSIVE: From ancient Egypt to the 1970s, Britain’s Got Talent judge Amanda Holden is to explore the history of sex via a Sky docu-drama. Holden and TV historian Dan Jones are fronting the series ...

"Look Back to Look Forward: 50 Years of the Irish in Britain" is an oral history project telling the stories of Irish people who have emigrated to Britain over the past half-century. The free ...

The rituals of mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth II tie-in traditions which date back centuries … a royal reminder of this family's thousand-plus year history. Hugo Vickers, one of the preeminent ...

Monty Python fans take note: one-season series The Complete and Utter History of Britain, which was created and written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones and aired in early 1969 right before the iconic ...

Until recently, it seemed we, Britons, would do anything to get the attention of the world’s most powerful superpower. Up to and including becoming embroiled in ill-conceived wars in Iraq and ...

Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British ...