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.
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.
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.
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,.
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?
Rebecca Onion's latest Slate Vault piece is typically good, about pollution in the 19th century Thames River. She suggests reading this link at your own risk if you really like.
Whatever issues you may have with the Iron Lady, this would undoubtedly have been good policy: Margaret Thatcher's government imagined rounding up and imprisoning Scottish nationalists in the event of.
