As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

Seven years ago Wentworth Woodhouse was in a sorry state, now it turns over £3.5m a year—but how did this palace-sized ...

In this video, historian Alice Loxton give a summary of crime and punishment in 18th and 19th century Britain.

Since May this year, the aurora borealis (northern lights), has at times been visible further south than usual over Britain, ...

An 18th-century bust that has survived a castle fire, been displayed at the Louvre and spent more than a decade propping open a shed door in an industrial park may soon bring  millions of dollars to a ...

The mansion will be decorated in accordance with 1790 style and will include dance, open-hearth cooking demonstrations and ...

Jason and Amanda Howard, a British couple who had lived all over the world, found a permanent home among the limestone hills of Wiltshire in southwest England, in this farmhouse from the late 1700s.