Explore all of British history, from the Neolithic to the present day, with this easy-to-use interactive timeline. Browse hundreds of key events and discover how the past has shaped the world we ...

It received trading rights to the South Seas in return for financing the British government's debt. Shares were issued and unrealistic expectations cultivated. A monopoly of the slave trade was ...

Welcome to the 2019 GBP EUR history summary. This is the British Pound (GBP) to Euro (EUR) exchange rate history data page for the year of 2019, covering 365 days of GBP EUR historical data.

Andrea Hart, Head of Library Special Collections, shares some highlights from the collection and points out a few intriguing details. A long and complex history of geological events in the British ...

I joined the University of Sheffield in September 2006. Previously I read history at Merton College, Oxford, and stayed there to study for my D.Phil. In 2002 I took up a Leverhulme Postdoctoral ...

Henry VIII may have been the wealthiest monarch in British history. A 1547 inventory of Henry VIII's property estimated that his jewels, tapestries and palaces were worth about 300,000 British ...

Black people have made huge contributions to the British Red Cross' life-saving work both in the UK and overseas since we were founded in 1870. Despite this, Black history is often underrepresented in ...

This year Singapore marks a milestone in its history – the 200th anniversary of the foundation of “modern” Singapore by British statesman Sir Stamford Raffles The past two centuries have ...