MSNBC host Ali Velshi got involved in a heated on-air clash with a British historian over the royal family’s “ugly” connections to colonialism and slavery. Mr Velshi introduced his Saturday morning ...

From Britain's distant Viking past right up to the D-Day landings, here are 15 of the most common misconceptions that many ...

Until recently, it seemed we, Britons, would do anything to get the attention of the world’s most powerful superpower. Up to and including becoming embroiled in ill-conceived wars in Iraq and ...

LONDON (AP) – Eric Hobsbawm, who has died aged 95, was honored as one of Britain’s most distinguished historians, despite retaining an allegiance to the Communist Party that lasted long after many ...

In May 2024, the British Secretary of State for Business and Trade Kemi Badenoch claimed that Britain was enriched by national “ingenuity and industry” rather than by colonialism and trans-Atlantic ...

Arnold Toynbee, noted British historian who has provoked considerable criticism among Jews for anti-Jewish and anti-Israel assertions in his “Study of History,” reiterates his views in a letter to the ...

Conrad Russell, who died Thursday aged 67, held the chair of British history at King’s College, London, from 1990 to 2002 and was a leading revisionist historian of the English Civil War. During the ...

British historian Andrew Roberts clashed with MSNBC host Ali Velshi on Saturday over the anchor’s claims that while many loved Queen Elizabeth II, other people throughout the world are tired of the ...

In an interview with ERR, British historian Bettany Hughes said her job as a historian is to read between the lines and find ...

British historian David Starkey surrendered his honorary fellowship at the University of Cambridge, the school announced Friday, after he said that the enslavement of black people wasn’t a genocide ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier, 73, noted British historian died today. Dr. Namier served as political secretary for the Jewish Agency from 1929 to 1931. Dr. Namier was born in Warsaw and became a ...