Throughout the month of October, Black History Month, which has been observed in the UK for more than 30 years, highlights and celebrates the contributions and achievements of people of African and ...

This article is part of The Athletic’s series marking UK Black History Month. To view the whole collection, click here. There can be a tendency to focus on telling traumatic stories during UK Black ...

Grotto at the Gibberd Garden, Essex, Uk. Image by Tim Sandle. Grotto at the Gibberd Garden, Essex, Uk. Image by Tim Sandle. When it comes to history the weird and the wonderful go hand-in-hand.

Anti-migrant protesters riot outside of a Holiday Inn Express being used as an asylum hotel, on August 4, in Rotherham, United Kingdom. Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Authorities and ...

At secondary school I remember learning about King Henry VIII and his six wives. Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. Then there was World War One and World War Two: I spent many ...