For the dreadful blitz days of 1940, the editorial in the London Times may have seemed a minor issue. But not to the Times’s readers. The editorial had simply reported that out of a group of 31 ...

It was a consequential 118 years. Emerging after England’s War of the Roses, the Tudor dynasty — lasting from 1485 to 1603 — saw only three generations rule the country. And yet it was a time of major ...

The Tudor dynasty was short in duration, but it has become perennial in memory. Just over a century passed between 1485, when Henry Tudor became Henry VII, and 1603, when his granddaughter Elizabeth I ...

In the London Review of Books, Irina Dumitrescu writes about reading and language learning in Renaissance England in a review of two books on the subject. The early modern classroom was no safe space.

MUSKOGEE, OK -- Imagine taking a step back in time and living in sixteenth-century Renaissance England in 1539. Thousands of people are doing just that. They're taking a break from reality and ...

Much has been written about Mary, Queen of Scots, and the rivalry between her and her cousin, Elizabeth I of England, which ended in Mary’s execution. But this was not the only fraught relationship ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

WASHINGTON — After 400 years, the letters have turned brown and become brittle. They almost seem to be returning to their bark origins. The talk in them is of recipes and love, muscle aches and ...

Discover how rewilding Britain with the return of beavers is sparking a renaissance in the countryside. From restoring wetlands to boosting biodiversity, this is a story of nature’s comeback.

FREE markets are not popular at the moment, and Britain is home to more than most. Known for its famous—or infamous—“light-touch” regulation of financial services, it is a pioneer in other areas too, ...

LONDON — A government campaign to usher in the next generation of nuclear power in Britain hit a major snag when German companies, scared off by the crisis last year at Japan's Fukushima plant, pulled ...