British History

The island nation that became one of the world's largest and powerful empires, has a long and tumultuous history.

Heavy smog in Piccadilly Circus, London, 6th December 1952 (Getty).
The Day London Vanished

Popular Culture
Lower Matlock Wheel - Malcolm Nunn
The Great Sheffield Flood

Disasters
The most picturesque places in…England

British History
The Calendar Riots of 1752: When Britain lost 11 days

Popular Culture
The Battle of Newark Castle and the River Trent

River Hunters
Lessons from Samuel Pepys's Plague diary: Living through an outbreak

Popular Culture
Left: a group of soldiers in the trenches, right: the ruined village of Athies, Pas-de-Calais, destroyed in the German retreat
Operation Alberich, the campaign that inspired Sam Mendes' 1917

WW1
Owain Glyndwr and 800 men attacked Carreg Cennen Castle in July 1403
Owain Glyndŵr: The last Welsh prince of wales

Al Murray Why Does Everyone Hate the English
The Massacre of Peterloo or Britons Strike Home by George Cruikshank
Peterloo: the bloody massacre that led to parliamentary reform

Battles
A 134 bus is left leaning against the side of a terrace in Harrington Square, Mornington Crescent (Getty).
London Blitz: where the bombs fell

WW2 Treasure Hunters
How 1066 changed English forever

Al Murray Why Does Everyone Hate the English
Making steel bill hooks and knives in Sheffield by hand, 1932
A history of the 'Steel City'

Forged In Fire
The Portrait of an African Man by Jan Mostaert, 1525 | public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Black History Month and the importance of celebrating black British history

Popular Culture
Churchill and Gandhi's epic rivalry

Colonialism
History of Liverpool

Popular Culture
Image Source: The Independent
HISTORY's Forgotten People: Walter Tull

Sport
William Simpson - Charge of the light cavalry brigade
‘Gallant’, ‘brilliant’ and ‘useless’ - the Charge of the Light Brigade

Battles
10 things you didn't know about Winston Churchill

Hunting Hitler
Caledonia, Scotland's doomed Panama colony

Al Murray Why Does Everyone Hate the English
Mahatma Gandhi and left Gandhi leading the Salt March, 1930
Gandhi's Salt March, the tax protest that changed Indian history

Colonialism
10 Hidden British Gems

Ozzy and Jacks World Detour
How well do you know your British history?

Britains Bloodiest Dynasty
Quiz: Famous battles in British history

Britains Bloodiest Dynasty
Wernher von Braun and the V2 rocket
The death of the doodlebug: The rise and fall of Hitler’s V-weapons

WW1
German Panzer IV and Sd.Kfz. 251 halftrack \ Wikipedia
The Battle of Kursk: the largest tank battle in history

Battles
Margaret Thatcher
How Thatcher broke the miners' strike but at what cost?

Popular Culture
Viktor Bout – Merchant of Death

Damian Lewis Spy Wars
Reproduction of the poison-tipped umbrella that killed Georgi Markov
The weirdest cold war assassination of all

Damian Lewis Spy Wars