British History

Conservative Party leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick rebuked the growing call for reparations to Caribbean countries and argued that former British colonies instead owe the United Kingdom a “debt of gratitude” for the enduring institutions leftover from the Empire.

King Arthur may have been a member of the so-called LGBTQ+ community according to a council in Wales because he is said to have once worn women’s clothes

A 1,000-year-old Viking “wallet” containing dozens of silver coins was recently discovered by British historians on the Isle of Man, officials announced Monday.

In a Black Lives Matter-inspired move, a British university has cancelled the term “Anglo-Saxon” from its curriculum.

A fire broke out Saturday on the roof of Somerset House, a historic arts venue on the River Thames in central London.

UK teachers have reportedly been told to present the British Empire similarly to how they teach the horrors of Nazi Germany.

Academics have been granted nearly £1.5 million in taxpayer cash to study the “white-centricity” of English folk music and how to “decolonise” the art.

Observances were held in Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the “Great Escape,” in which 76 prisoners tunneled out of a Nazi POW camp.

A British academic deploying “trans theory” onto the past, has claimed that the graves of Anglo-Saxon warriors indicate some were transgender.

Former slave-trading countries should pay Barbados $4.9 trillion in reparations, the Caribbean country’s leftist prime minister has demanded.

The granddaughter of Nelson Mandela has demanded that the British Royal Family pay reparations for its role in colonialism in Africa.

British police made their second arrest over the cutting down of a 300-year-old tree near the Roman landmark of Hadrian’s Wall in the northeast of England.

A recently released children’s history book has claimed that England’s famed Stonehenge monument was built when Britain was a “black country”.

The German art historian who has led the British Museum since 2016 has stood down over a growing scandal over nearly 2,000 stolen artefacts.

A historical tour for schools branded poet Alfred Tennyson among “notable LGBT people”, despite having no firm evidence of him being gay.

Cambridge is reportedly teaching that Anglo-Saxons never existed as a unique ethnic group to dispel alleged nationalist “myths” about Britain.

Welsh Government advice says statues of “old white men” such as Trafalgar hero Admiral Nelson may need to be removed or even destroyed to create the “right historical narrative” in an increasingly multicultural society.

Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be a Roman shrine beneath a former graveyard in the grounds of a cathedral in central England.

LONDON (AP) — Britain has reasserted its sovereignty over the Falkland Islands after Argentina pulled out of a cooperation agreement and demanded new talks over the South Atlantic territory that sparked a 1982 war between the two countries.

England’s Northumbria Police force has flagged a statue of two Vikings in Jarrow, England, for possible “associations with far-Right symbolism”.

A Sikh man who sought to assassinate the late Queen Elizabeth II with a crossbow at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day has pleaded guilty to treason.

The Church of England announced that it has committed £100 million in a reparations-style package for its role in the historical slave trade.

The Black Lives Matter-inspired culture war on Britain’s history is continuing as a school named for English naval hero Sir Francis Drake is set to be rebranded after bosses decided he “sat at odds with the values of our school.”

December 25th 2022 will see the first Christmas broadcast to the United Kingdom and British Commonwealth by King Charles III, and the first by a monarch other than the late Queen Elizabeth II since 1951.

A Member of Parliament (MP) for Britain’s governing Conservative (Tory) Party plans to put forward a bill that will allow Parliament to strip Prince Harry and wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, of their titles, in response to their politically-charged Netflix series. 

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle featured a professor who said the Queen “wanted to be a figurehead for white supremacy” after her death in their tell-all Netflix docu-series. 

The idea that the United Kingdom was founded on the back of “systemic racism” is reportedly held by nearly half of young people, polling has reportedly found.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government has confirmed plans to replace the Royal Yacht Britannia, decommissioned by Tony Blair in 1997, as part of his return the ‘managed decline’ policies which have characterised the Conservative Party through most of their time in office since 2010.

Tens of millions of pounds earmarked for universities in Britain have reportedly been spent on far-left projects including examining the allegedly racist history of a collection of dried plants and increasing LGBTQ+ “representation” in Medieval History, a report has claimed.

A London park named for four-time prime minister William Gladstone, one of the most famous premiers of the Victoria era, will be transformed into a “slavery garden” at the behest of the Labour-run local government.

The State Funeral for Queen Elizabeth II once again highlights the deep faith of the monarch, who was scrupulous in keeping her political and social beliefs to herself – but did not shy from sharing her belief in Christ. 

“Visiting Malta is always very special for me,” the Queen said in Malta in 2015, when she visited the island nation for a Commonwealth meeting in what became her final visit. “I remember happy days here with Prince Phillip when we were first married.”

Gaston Browne, the Labour Party prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, has proposed a referendum to abolish the monarchy before the Queen has even been buried.

The coffin containing the body of the late Queen Elizabeth II has arrived at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in the Scottish capital, after a long procession from her Balmoral estate in the Highlands.

King Charles III has been formally proclaimed as monarch following a meeting of the ancient Accession Council in St James’s Palace.

The late Queen Elizabeth II warned against “unthinking people” seeking to throw away “ageless ideals” in an age of rapid change in her first-ever televised Christmas message in 1957.