In British parliament, prorogation ends one legislative year—known as a session—so another can begin. Simple, right? Not exactly. Steeped in tradition and soaked with political potential, prorogation ...

Spearheaded by MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), experts have unearthed ancient tools dating back to the Mesolithic and ...

Archaeologists discovered 6,000-year-old flint tools beneath the Palace of Westminster that predate Stonehenge, along with medieval artifacts and Roman remains.

British Museum Quarterly is a scholarly journal published by the British Museum from 1926-1973. It is a journal dealing with recent British Museum acquisitions and research concerning the Museum's ...

Eliot Wilson talks us through the history and the traditions surrounding the UK Budget, one of the most important days in the ...

Prince Andrew having his royal titles removed to become simply Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is seismic. The words “unprecedented” and “historical” were rightly used when the news broke, as never in ...

LONDON — Following last week’s decisive election victory for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives, the U.K.’s new Parliament leans to the right and is decisively pro-Brexit. It’s also ...

One of the longest sessions in the history of the British Parliament ended early Tuesday morning in extraordinary scenes, with protests from placard-waving lawmakers and attempts to prevent the ...

Members of the British Parliament representing all political parties today heard reports of Nazi massacres of Jews in Europe, presented to them by Prof. Selig Brodetsky, president of the Board of ...