Fifty years ago this month, Harold Wilson returned as Britain’s prime minister after winning the first 1974 election against a backdrop of paralyzing strikes, soaring inflation and terrorist bombings.

“You need to use your imagination,” says Otto Saumarez Smith, an architectural historian. The Oasis swimming pool and leisure centre in Swindon closed in 2020 and is now drawing graffiti taggers and ...

LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 03: Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak hosts a press conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room on February 3, 2022 in London, England. As the energy ...

Thomas has spent two years working in the auto journalism industry, contributing to a UK-based newspaper and writing for Euronewsweek. A full-time writer and lifelong engineering enthusiast, he now ...

BBC cameras went to look at the picturesque village of Robin Hood’s Bay, parts of which were in peril due to crumbling cliffs. This was part of Look Stranger: The Changing Shape of Britain, first ...

Nurses rejected the Government’s pay deal in the middle of Reeves’ speech The nurses decided to undermine the Chancellor’s speech to Conference by putting out their rejection of the Government’s 5.5 ...

Margaret Thatcher became prime minister on May 4, 1979—about the midpoint of when the pictures in “This Is Britain: Photographs From the 1970s and 1980s” at the National Gallery of Art were ...

This West Yorkshire town with 'quaint charm of bygone years' is the real-life filming location of Last of the Summer Wine - ...

Henry Todd, LSD kingpin of 1970s Britain and later leading supplier of oxygen to Everest climbers At his peak, Todd helped to control 90 per cent of Britain’s LSD trade, before he was ensnared in the ...