Sailing up the Clyde towards Glasgow there is a vast and imposing sentinel guarding the river at Dumbarton. As a fortress Dumbarton Rock has a long and proud history, and, in fact, has a longer ...
The artist behind a tapestry highlighting the wartime service of Black Britons has said it is part of efforts to tell a "missing" story. Artist Paula Ogun Hector, who led the multi-participant project ...
The Britons responsible for the building of the iconic Stonehenge were probably black people, a study has suggested. Data from 348 ancient genomes gathered from across Eurasia have been reconstructed ...
The filmmaker Steve McQueen and Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees have been named in a list of “100 great black Britons” curated by Windrush campaigners and historians to mark Black History Month. Patrick ...
Christmas came early for me this weekend, when I heard that journalists Iain Thomson and Shaun Nicholls had compiled their list of “Top 10 Great Britons in IT history”. It’s a great read – celebrating ...
The Independent reports that archaeologists have discovered infant skeletons from the Roman period bearing significant "negative health markers," pointing to widespread suffering among urban ...
The academic, 52, told BBC History Magazine that Christianity is a 'compelling and important' part of British culture and appeared to lament the fact that belief is on the decline. Professor Roberts ...
London: Immigrants will finally be made to take a British history test under plans to slash the number of passports handed out to foreigners each year. It ends a four-year refusal by the Home Office ...
In Britain, anti-German sentiments persist more than half a century after World War II — so much so that the German Ambassador in London has called on British schools to update their curricula. Eighty ...