Great Britain

Despite cloudy weather, beaches are packed in Brighton, England. With airfares rising and the British pound down after the Brexit vote, some Britons are vacationing closer to home.

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For Post-Brexit British Vacationers, Staying Home Now Seems Appealing

8:38am July 31, 2016

by Lauren Frayer

In the weeks since British voters chose to leave the EU, the value of the pound has dropped steeply. That's made European vacations more expensive — and staying in the U.K. more attractive.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (right), and British Prime Minister Theresa May (left), listen to translations during a joint news conference in Berlin on July 20. They are the two most important figures in the negotiations over Britain's departure from t

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The Two Women Leaders Who Have To Figure Out The Brexit

4:16pm July 24, 2016

by Esme Nicholson

Britain's new prime minister, Theresa May, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have a mammoth task ahead: overcoming their differences over how to handle Britain's departure from the EU.

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Kidlington is home to a number of 17th century cottages near its medieval church. This is the most historic part of the village, but it's not where the tourists went. Instead, tour buses dropped them off in a residential area built in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Why Did Busloads Of Asian Tourists Suddenly Arrive In This English Village?

7:00am July 23, 2016

by Lauren Frayer

Residents of Kidlington awoke one morning to find hundreds of foreign tourists snapping photos on their front lawns. For six weeks, the visitors continued to come by the busload. Then they vanished.

Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London and a leading proponent for Britain's departure from the EU, holds a press conference in London on Friday. Johnson is considered a leading contender to replace Prime Minister David Cameron, who announced Friday th

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Boris Johnson: London's Ex-Mayor Could Be Britain's Next Prime Minister

7:49am June 25, 2016

by Lauren Frayer

Johnson took a gamble by leading the campaign for Britain to leave the EU. He's now a leading candidate to replace his college friend and fellow Conservative David Cameron.

Searches for "what is the eu" and "what is brexit" spiked in the U.K. after polls closed.

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After Brexit Vote, Britain Asks Google: 'What Is The EU?'

3:43pm June 24, 2016

by Alina Selyukh

Google Trends shows that this was the second-searched EU-related question in the United Kingdom after polls closed. The first was "What does it mean to leave the EU?"

Advocates for the U.K. leaving the EU wave Union flags and cheer as the results come in at the Leave.EU referendum party at Millbank Tower in central London early Friday morning.

U.K. Votes To Leave EU; Prime Minister Cameron To Step Down

12:58pm June 24, 2016

by Mark Katkov

The vote was 52 percent to 48 percent in favor of leaving the EU. Global markets are down in the wake of the news. Prime Minister David Cameron, who advocated remaining in the EU, says he will resign.

Great Britain has always been ambivalent about being tied to Europe. The U.K. joined the European Economic Community in 1973, and two years later, it held a referendum on whether it should leave. Here, members of the Labour Party hold a 1975 news conferen

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Great Britain's Long Retreat

6:54am June 22, 2016

by Greg Myre

Britain was an outward-looking nation that built the world's largest empire. But it's been turning inward and Thursday's vote on leaving the European Union could further shrink its international role.

A Dundee marmalade jar (left) is among items recently unearthed from a 19th century landfill behind a manor house in East Anglia. In Victorian England, people transitioned from making most things at home to buying them in stores.

Digging Up The Roots Of Modern Waste In Victorian-Era Rubbish

6:46pm June 01, 2016

by Lauren Frayer

Some archaeologists excavate Roman ruins. Others dig up garbage. In England, a project is underway to study what people threw out in Victorian times, to learn about the start of the consumer era.

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A stately Georgian house at 29 Harley Street is home to Formations House, a company that specializes in creating other companies.

1 Address, 2,000 Companies, And The Ease Of Doing Business In The U.K.

9:34am May 30, 2016

by Lauren Frayer

The U.K. likes to boast about how easy it is to do business there, but a profusion of shell companies hides many that are fronts for fraud and corruption. Now the U.K. wants more scrutiny.

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Fillets of salmon, salted and smoked by H. Forman & Son, are destined for the U.S. grocery chain Whole Foods.

Backing 'Brexit,' A Salmon Smokehouse Says It's Been Swimming Upstream

12:49pm May 03, 2016

by Lauren Frayer

Mom-and-pop businesses are considering how a British exit from the EU could affect them. The owner of Britain's oldest salmon smokehouse, who wants out, says EU membership dilutes British culture.

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