British History

The same ranger who found the tree chopped down last September recently made a much happier discovery.

A rare Roman mosaic is the latest discovery from a crack team of British archaeologists.

In 1721, London was in the grips of a deadly smallpox epidemic. One woman learned how to stop it, but her solution sowed political division.

Charles Dickens, born Feb. 7, 1812, was likely inspired by his own hunger to write some of the finest descriptions of Victorian food and cooking that have ever been recorded in literature.

History hasn't been kind to the British royal who lost the Colonies. But a project that launched Saturday plans to digitize over 350,000 letters and papers that may humanize the much-maligned monarch.