The French Revolution sent shock-waves through Britain. While some watched transfixed, others were horrified. Simon Schama explores why the British proved immune to the siren call of liberty, equality ...

Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British ...

The Gist: Throughout the 77 minutes of Britain and the Blitz, we’ll “meet” several survivors of this horrible ordeal: Eric Brady, who was five years old when he survived the bombing of his school – ...

Perhaps the greatest unsolved mystery in British royal history is that of the Princes in the Tower. In 1483, The Princes Edward (Edward V of England) and Richard (Duke of York) were just 12 and 9 ...

The Battle of Cape Passero (1940) unfolded in the early hours of October 12, during World War II. British cruiser hms Ajax, on a scouting mission after a Malta supply operation, encountered seven ...

It is "grimly fortuitous timing" that "Britain's Nuclear Bomb Scandal: Our Story" is being broadcast on BBC Two just as "Vladimir Putin's finger seems to be hovering close to the red button", said ...

Comcast’s Sky is lining up a three-part doc for the 20th anniversary of the London bombings of 2005. Blast Films, a Sky Studios-owned producer, will make the doc, which Sky claims will be the ...

From a slyly clueless documentary presenter to a soulful pair of private eyes, here are the latest trans-Atlantic imports. By Mike Hale Does Britain make the best television in the world? At the high ...

He was one of the original children profiled in “Seven Up!,” a 1964 British documentary, and reappeared in subsequent installments for more than a half-century. By Neil Genzlinger Nicholas Hitchon, ...