England is a country, while Great Britain is the island comprising England, Scotland, and Wales. The United Kingdom is the sovereign state uniting Great Britain with Northern Ireland. Understanding ...

Britain’s best-selling cars, from the 1950s to the 2000s The most popular models of the first 60 years post-war have plenty to confirm them as practical classics, as enthusiastic owners testify Gift ...

Patricia Shannon gives how-to content a can-do attitude, sharing her knowledge and research on housekeeping, decorating, gardening, etiquette, beauty, and more. She has been writing and editing ...

LAKE SUCCESS: Well-informed sources said on Thursday [Oct 26] that the United States endorses Britain’s suggestion that the Security Council name a five-nation sub-committee to try and find some ...

There is no denying the appeal of modern, flashy RVs, but sometimes nothing can beat the timeless charm of the aluminum-clad classics that roamed the highways during the post-World War II era, which ...

The American ranch house has for decades been dismissed as the real estate equivalent of the TV dinner—mass-produced, bland and outmoded. Recently, though, home buyers are warming to the humble legacy ...

In the 1950s, you could get a full meal for under a buck, eat filet mignon at a coffee shop, and order frog legs on a pizza without anyone batting an eye. Restaurants leaned into personality, with ...

Chloé Josse-Durand receives funding from Newcastle University and the Leverhulme Trust. In 1950, British forces killed at least 29 civilians in one of the deadliest, but least chronicled, episodes of ...

Gold and U.S. dollars are bouncing back into Britain. Last week Sir Stafford Cripps told a happy House of Commons that his working dollar reserves for the worldwide sterling area were $2.42 billion, ...

In the 1950s, Britain explored a nuclear bomber unlike any other—tailless, supersonic, and shaped like a wing. The Vickers Swallow was part fighter, part flying experiment, and entirely ambitious.