The artist behind a tapestry highlighting the wartime service of Black Britons has said it is part of efforts to tell a ...

Despite contributing relatively few wrestlers to the WWE across its history, several British individuals have made a big ...

Therefore, Unbothered has curated seven must-read Black British history books that challenge the distorted depictions of our past and have marred our understanding of a people, and more personally, ...

As long time readers know, I spent most of my 20s training to be a historian. In fact it was what I was certain I wanted to do since High School. And then right about my mid-20s I realized somehow it ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: No matter how good, no military is perfect. For centuries, the sun never set on the British Empire. But eclipses there were, and more than a few that stained British arms ...

From Queen Elizabeth to King George V, go back in time to see these photos of coronations of British monarchs. For the last 900 years, coronations of British monarchs—ceremonies filled with pomp, ...

On a cloud-spackled Sunday last June, protesters in Bristol, England, gathered at a statue of Edward Colston, a seventeenth-century slave trader on whose watch more than eighty thousand Africans were ...

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 ...

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British criticism of an award-winning 2006 film about the Irish War of Independence reflects unwillingness by modern British society to accept that Crown Forces engaged in a brutal campaign in Ireland ...