When Siebert Allman came from Barbados to England in 1961 to work for a London transport company, he spoke of his experience of mass immigration: leave their country. for Australia and New Zealand." A year later, Allman returned t...
We now have a good understanding of how race, class, religion and gender define lives of immigrants and their impact on British culture, society and economy. But as Nancy Green pointed out nearly two decades ago, immigration rese...
The first heresy trial in Belfast was against J. E. Davy, and at its core was a question of personality. Irish Presbyterianism is a transatlantic denomination influenced by Scottish and American Presbyterian Churches, 1926, PCI w...
Any prospect that 1254 appropriation settled political status of Channel Islands in Plantagenet kingdom would soon be complicated by their entanglement in Anglo-French relations from 1259 until Henry III and Louis IX's Treaty of P...
1558 was one of open wars between England and Scotland when death of Mary Tudor in November 1558 thwarted initial peace movement in October. However, conflict not only affected Anglo-Scottish relations, but also in internal conte...
In Duke's opinion, this proves that Scots can be trusted to make a lasting peace with England, although war of 1558 was too close, Percy was too sophisticated, and Chatelguero was too far from truth, but Duke Stressing that nobles...
August 4, 1917 US Ambassador to Great Britain Walter Hines Page arrives in Plymouth, Devon. The largest city in West and proud home of a rich naval history. His visit marks a full three years since start of World War I, which Unit...
There is hardly outright hostility in Scotland to Union of 1603, which would likely have turned out differently if an English king had been on Scottish throne, but truth is that Scots can and do celebrate. The ancient Stuart dynas...
During second half of eighteenth century, increase in military spending and accumulation of public debt charges sparked intense debate about their impact on Britain. While broader economic and political interests of funding system...
1918 The rhetorical culture of House of Commons after expansion of suffrage in Britain, when for first time a large influx of new Labor MPs and a small number of women entered Parliament. While Conservative Party's attempts to li...