Buckingham Palace is getting a 'necessary' refurbishment costing millions of pounds. The announcement occured on the same day that MPs debated reducing the number of elected representatives as a 'cost saving' measure. On Friday it was announced that the...
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On April 4, 1581, a few months after he completed a daring circumnavigation of the globe, the British navigator Francis Drake was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I during a ceremony aboard his flagship Golden Hind. Drake’s round-the-world voyage was a high...
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A huge, prehistoric religious and ceremonial complex has been discovered near Britain’s most famous prehistoric temple Stonehenge. Its discovery is likely to transform our understanding of the early development of Stonehenge’s ancient landscape. Built...
Lire la suiteQueen Mary I, the monarch of England and Ireland since 1553, dies and is succeeded by her 25-year-old half-sister, Elizabeth. The two half-sisters, both daughters of King Henry VIII, had a stormy relationship during Mary’s five-year reign. Mary, who was...
Lire la suiteThe Oxford English Dictionary named "post-truth" its 2016 international word of the year in a fittingly political race that featured terms like "alt-right," "Brexiteer" and "woke," The New York Times reports. The OED defines "post-truth" as "relating...
Lire la suiteThe EU referendum was not legally binding, a Supreme Court judge hearing the Government’s appeal against the Brexit legal challenge has said ahead of the December court case. Lady Brenda Hale made the comments in a speech to lawyers in Kuala Lumpar, during...
Lire la suiteThree senior judges ruled on Thursday that the British government does not have the authority to proceed with the UK’s exit from the European Union without the approval of parliament. A legal challenge to the prime minister’s power to trigger article...
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