Join in

Send page to a friend

Latest News

Click for the History of British News

Latest From BBC News

Police launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donations
National security can't come at expense of social security, Burnham says
Watch: Europe's royalty pay last respects to King Harald V in Norway
Miliband rejects chief rabbi's claim British Jews in greater danger after sanctions move
Uganda pulling out of Prince Harry's Invictus Games, says military chief
'We were raped and exploited by a drug gang as teenagers', women tell BBC of their ordeal
Hundreds mourn police officer killed in wrong-way A66 crash
Mother demands answers, weeks after black woman found hanging from Mississippi tree
Google picks Finland for its largest single investment in Europe
Germany's Merz attacks AfD in stormy debate after far-right election win
Watch: Sinkhole at Nicolas Cage's Malibu house swallows driveway

News tweets

Recommended Books:

A Picture of Britain
A Picture of Britain
Ashes Fever
Ashes Fever
Coast
Coast
Churchill
Churchill

Brit Quote:
A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally. - Peter Ustinov
More Quotes

On this day:
Macabre End of William the Conqueror - 1087, Battle of Flodden Field - 1513, Mary Queen of Scots Crowned - 1543, The Earl of Mar’s Declaration - 1715, Elizabeth II becomes longest serving Monarch - 2015
More dates from British history

click here to view all the British counties

County Pages