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Some people probably wonder why the British still hate the French so much, especially since the Entente Cordiale was signed in 1904. But with so many recent instances of the French doing their best to annoy us - such as continuing with the ban on British beef illegally, or sealing off the...

Slapstick comedy is one of the great things about the British General Election campaign. At every election, you can guarantee that at least one politician will be pelted with an egg. In fact, throwing an egg at a politician is probably a democratic right enshrined in the Magna Carta or the...

This year marks the 350th anniversary of the Restoration. That was when England ended years of civil war and internal strife by restoring the monarchy after a period of 11 years in which the country was a republic and a dictatorship. The causes of the English Civil War are numerous and...

It is 70 years ago this year that British cities were devastated by the Luftwaffe. To commemorate, Channel 4 has made a new series called Blitz Street, hosted by Blackadder's "Baldrick", Tony Robinson. In the series, replica terraced houses, similar to those built in the early 20th century...

Before Thursday, anybody saying that Britain will soon have a Liberal government would have probably been sent to Broadmoor and put in a padded cell. But since Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, put in a stunning performance on Thursday in Britain's first ever televised Leaders' Debate...

A row of ancient stones has been uncovered in south west England which are even older than Stonehenge. The nine stones which have been found at Cut Hill on Dartmoor in Devon, 120 miles from Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire where Stonehenge is located, have been found to be 1,000 years older than...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in the middle of a General Election campaign, has called an emergency Cobra meeting to discuss the worsening travel crisis as a giant Icelandic volcano continues to spew its ash over Britain and Europe. Cobra, which stands for Cabinet Office Briefing Room...

On 16 October 1834, disaster struck the British parliament. A fire broke out in the Palace of Westminster, the seat of government, after an overheated stove used to destroy the Exchequer's stockpile of tally sticks set fire to the House of Lords Chamber. In the resulting conflagration both...

This month marks the 350th anniversary of the Restoration of the British monarchy and the coming to the Throne of Merrie Monarch King Charles II. To mark the occasion, the Royal Mint plans to issue 150,000 commemorative £5 coins. Throughout the 1650s, in the aftermath of the English Civil...

Britain's BAE Systems has become the world's largest arms dealer. The company, known as British Aerospace until 1999, has £21 billion in sales. This means it has become the first non-American company to top the list. The company does more than half of its business with the US, including a...

A new book has revealed that the sinking of the Titanic almost never happened. As the "unsinkable" British ocean liner left Southampton docks to start its maiden voyage, it narrowly missed crashing into another ship, the SS New York, by a mere 2 feet. Had the collision occurred, the Titanic...

This week, the second week of the British General Election campaign, has been the week that the parties have launched their manifestoes, which set out their "promises" of what they would do should they be elected. And it's been interesting to find out the location where each party launched its...

Tory leader David Cameron has been accused of using his election campaign to plug firms which back his policy on National Insurance. The Labour Government are planning on increasing National Insurance, but Cameron has said that if he wins the May 6th General Election to become Prime Minister...

Portsmouth may be rock bottom of the Premiership, and have already been relegated down to the Championship, the second tier of English football, where they will play next season, but they are having a love affair with the FA Cup. The cash-strapped team from the city which is home to the Royal...

A student is to recreate the infamous journey made over 200 years ago by the Royal Navy's Captain Bligh who, along with 18 of his loyal men, found himself the victim of mutineers onboard his ship. British student Chris Wilde will join Australian Don McIntyre, captain of the Talisker Bounty...

It may seem hard to believe, but Portsmouth are NOT the worst football team in Britain. That title goes to Aldermaston. Aldermaston may be the Berkshire village near where Britain's nuclear bombs are designed and manufactured, but there's certainly nothing explosive about the town's football...

SPOILER WARNING!!!! This Saturday's Doctor Who will only be the third episode of the brand new series (which comes to North America this very Saturday 17th April), but already it will be an episode which sees the return of TV's most famous sci-fi baddies - the Daleks. The Doctor and his...

At the start of the 21st Century, many things are now done online which would have seemed almost unthinkable over 15 years ago - such as shopping, booking a holiday or discussing current affairs. And now, Britain's great democracy is entering the online realm. During the coming three...

It is the start of the second week of the UK General Election campaign and the battle is getting bloodier by the day. The leader of the anti-EU United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), Lord Pearson, has warned that if either Labour or the Tories win the election, it would lead to five more...

An invitation to the 1661 coronation of King Charles II is to be auctioned. Charles II came to the throne of England in 1660 after 11 years of England being a republic and a military dictatorship under Oliver Cromwell and then his son, Richard. Charles, though, had been on the throne of...