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History
Boudicca's Revolt: The British Queen Who Nearly Drove Rome From Britain
In 60 AD the queen of the Iceni led the most serious challenge to Roman rule in Britain's history, destroying …
History
King Alfred the Great: The Viking Wars and the Making of England
Alfred of Wessex faced the complete conquest of England by the Vikings, saved his kingdom from the marshes of …
Analysis
Britain and America: An Alliance Under Strain
The special relationship has survived many tests. The current period of US political volatility is among the m…
World
India-Pakistan Tensions 2025: What It Means for Britain's Large South Asian Diaspora
Renewed tensions between India and Pakistan are being felt in British communities. National Herald examines th…
Politics
Keir Starmer's First 100 Days: A Comprehensive Assessment of Labour's Record
From economic inheritance to foreign policy, we examine what the government has achieved and where it has fall…
Analysis
The British Monarchy: A Complete History from William the Conqueror to King Charles III
Almost a thousand years of kings and queens, revolution and restoration, abdication and renewal — the complete…
Analysis
The History of London: From Roman Londinium to Global Megacity
Two thousand years of one city: how a Roman river crossing became the capital of an empire, survived plague an…
Technology
£50 Million Government Investment in UK Defence Drone Sector Announced
The funding is designed to accelerate domestic production capacity and reduce dependence on foreign suppliers …
History
Roman Britain: How Rome Ruled Britannia for Nearly 400 Years
From Julius Caesar's first landings in 55 BC to the withdrawal of the legions in 410 AD, Rome left an indelibl…
History
The Battle of Hastings: What Really Happened on That October Day in 1066
The most consequential battle in English history unfolded over nine hours on a Sussex hillside — but the outco…
History
The Battle of Waterloo 1815: Napoleon's Defeat and Britain's Century of Supremacy
On 18 June 1815, the Duke of Wellington and his allied forces broke Napoleon's Grande Armée and ended twenty y…
History
The British Empire: Rise, Reach and the Reckoning With Its Legacy
At its peak in 1920, the British Empire covered a quarter of the world's land surface and governed a quarter o…
History
The Duke of Wellington: Soldier, Politician and the Man Who Beat Napoleon
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was Britain's greatest military commander and a controversial politi…
History
The English Civil War: How Britain Executed a King and Invented Parliamentary Democracy
Between 1642 and 1651, England tore itself apart in a conflict that ended with the execution of Charles I and …
History
The First World War: Britain, the Somme and the Generation That Was Lost
Between 1914 and 1918, Britain mobilised four million soldiers and suffered 750,000 dead — a national trauma w…
History
The Glorious Revolution of 1688: How Britain Established Constitutional Monarchy
When Parliament invited William of Orange to replace James II, it settled forever the question of who held ult…
History
The Magna Carta of 1215: Birth of the Rule of Law in England
Forced upon King John at Runnymede by rebellious barons, the Great Charter established the revolutionary princ…
World
The New Cold War? Understanding the Russia-West Confrontation
Twenty years of drift towards confrontation has produced a conflict that neither side knows how to end.…
World
The War in Ukraine: Where Things Stand and What Comes Next
Three years on, the conflict in Ukraine has settled into a grinding war of attrition. The path to resolution i…
World
UK Commits Additional £3bn to Ukraine in Largest Single Military Package
The package includes long-range missiles, air defence systems, and a 10-year bilateral security agreement sign…