Royal Exchange and Lloyds Banks Group in London
Take the lift up the Lloyds Building to survey the City of London’s financial district Scenes of the…
United Kingdom – Britain from 1754 to 1783
Henry Pelham died in 1754 and was replaced as head of the administration by his brother, the duke…
United Kingdom – Sports, Recreation, Culture
The communications media—press, publishing, broadcasting, and entertainment—reach audiences ranging from the millions for television, radio, and national newspapers…
United Kingdom – Economy, Trade, Manufacturing
The United Kingdom has a fiercely independent, developed, and international trading economy that was at the forefront of…
United Kingdom – Post-WWII, Brexit, Monarchy
Labour and the welfare state (1945–51) Labour rejoiced at its political triumph, the first independent parliamentary majority in…
United Kingdom – Early and mid-Victorian Britain
State and society The implementation of the liberal, regulative state emerging after the Napoleonic Wars involved a number…
Demystified | The Difference Between Great Britain and the United Kingdom
Okay, so you have Britain. Great Britain. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. All of…
United Kingdom – Late Victorian Britain
State and society From the 1880s a mounting sense of the limits of the liberal, regulative state became…