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
