Specially commissioned private rail cars have transported the royal family around the country for over 150 years, beginning ...

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The public is being invited to shape the future of the nation's currency, as the Bank of England launched a consultation on ...

In the Parliamentarian port of Poole the very idea of a pub named "The King's Head" would have been deeply provocative.

Henry VIII, who was born on this day in 1491, is the only English monarch other than William the Conqueror who can claim to ...

The Bank of England has been accused of "severing British history" after announcing plans to consider removing historic ...

Representing the floral emblem of Scotland, the Diamond Thistle Brooch once belonged to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth.

By Deslyn A Joseph Antigua and Barbuda observed National Flag Day yesterday, a double celebration which coincided with the ...

Brazil’s National Museum has offered a glimpse at its renovated building and collection. It comes two days before it reopens ...

Why change it if it ain’t broke?” we often complain. Our banknotes are beginning to fall into an even more undesirable ...

Some black market cigarettes, priced at as little as £3, have been found to contain human excrement, dead flies and asbestos.