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T he United States has recently witnessed challenges to the right to due process and a fair trial, including a recent ...
It is time once again to celebrate the red, white and blue. Of course, by that, I mean the Union Jack, the flag of the United ...
The United States of America is a product of Britain, fueled by the bold practitioners of Enlightenment thought. All the ...
On this 4th of July, as we honour our founding, I urge my fellow Americans to acknowledge the complex ties that bind us to Britain. Yes, our nations parted ways in 1776, but the break was less a ...
Enjoy your quiz rounds on film synopses (yes, that is the plural of synopsis) and biscuits.
And literature, come on. C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dickens, Dahl, Doyle, Austen, Woolf, and J. K. Rowling, to start. The entire world of Harry Potter has captivated generations of readers worldwide, ...
A long-lost Harrogate music legend will find himself in the national spotlight in London this month for the first time in ...
The Declaration of Indepenence, not to mention the Constitution that came 11 years later, did not come out of nothing. Over ...
When people talk about the signing of the Magna Carta, they often use dramatic imagery to paint a picture of the king of England signing a document that allowed his people to declare war on their own ...
Almost every trapping of Independence Day is due to Mother England in some way or another. In fact, it is fair to ask why we ever declared independence from England in the first place. And the ...
A British historian who discovered a Magna Carta copy was a genuine manuscript has shared his theory on why the document was misidentified. Harvard Law Library bought a version of the royal charter at ...
Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it had purchased for less than $30. But two researchers have concluded ...