This is the grave of Queen Elizabeth I, who is buried on top of Queen Mary. Hmmm.....there's a lot one could say about these two queens. So let's just make a few points here. The burial of Elizabeth on top of Mary seems so appropriate...
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It's Sunday afternoon. I'll take a minute away from thinking about the doom of the world to point out something that is just damned cool. For generations, residents of Collyweston.
Everything is basically terrible, so here's something that is not: A 1,300-year-old necklace beaded with gold and semiprecious stones has been discovered in an early Anglo-Saxon burial site under a.
Now this is the kind of climate action I expect from developed nations! The British government approved on Wednesday the country’s first coal mine in decades, a project promoted as a source of new jobs but which has been criticized as a reversal of efforts...
Well this is just damn cool stuff here. For nearly 1,300 years, no one knew it was there. The name of a highly educated English woman, secretly scratched on to.
On June 11, 1352, a series of trials were held against laborers from Wiltshire, England who had violated a 1349 ordinance that decreed that all laborers must accept the wages.
I have been unusually transfixed by this year's World Cup, where histories of European identity and empire are so clearly on display. [updated 15 July] We're headed into the last week, and the final four teams are all European--all NATO members, actually, and even all...
Hey, it's the anniversary of Charles I's demise at the hands of the Puritans, who was killed today in 1649. Whether it is coincidence that another annoying Brit, Phil Collins,.
Another reason I'm glad the U.S. broke free from these savages in 1776: Some 14,700 years ago, in a cave in southwest England, humans were dining on the flesh of.
Who else is spending the day playing around with this interactive map of Shakespeare-era London? More info here.
The winner of England's ugliest new building: Thoughts? Snarky comments?
Brooke Palmieri has a great discussion of early Quaker pamphlet printing and the impact they had upon 17th century English religious life. It sounds like that if you weren't a.