Tag Archives: UK History

Britain’s Pension Trap: Why Every Government Flinches

We can’t have everything at once: universal payments, ever-rising guarantees, low taxes, and balanced books.

Joyce Butler and the Long Road to the UK Sex Discrimination Act 1975

A woman who wanted to move up at work… but wasn’t allowed to learn the

How Early England Kept Time

How Tudor and Stuart England Told Time in Court Without Saying “Tuesday at 9”

Tracing the Celts in Portugal

The Celts in Europe, dark green areas, are still Celtic-speaking today.

Players in the Guildhall

By the time the Civil War closed the playhouses in 1642, the golden generation of

Britain’s Fight for Clean Air

Britain’s wartime smoke screens turned pollution into camouflage, colliding with a decade of progress by

How the Tudors Built Status

Tudor houses were working instruments of rule: places to quarter retainers, feed hundreds, lodge the

The Second Reform Act of 1867: What Really Changed in Britain

How foreign crises, union activism, and elite anxieties pushed Britain to the 1867 Second Reform

Arthur’s Little-Known Brothers

Early Welsh poems and later chronicles reveal forgotten brothers of King Arthur—especially Madoc ap Uthyr,

Anglo-Saxon Migration: What Genetics Really Shows

Ancient DNA studies challenge old views of the Anglo-Saxon migration, showing significant Germanic ancestry in