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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
