This autumn sees the launch of a major new book and exhibition devoted to examining the multiplicities of photography during 1980s Britain. Peter Dench finds out more 1980s Britain. A payload of ...

After weeks of heightened tensions in the Persian Gulf, Britain said Thursday that one of its naval escorts had prevented Iranian vessels from blocking a British-flagged tanker. The tanker was ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. Over the last 20 years there is no technology that has affected daily life as much as the ...

Watching a football match in Russia often carries echoes of the grim era of hooliganism in 1980s Britain. There are crumbling stadiums, sparse crowds, clashes between hardcore fans and police, and ...

Britain’s managerial class increasingly resembles that of the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. They know that change is coming, but they’re doing their utmost to ignore the fact as best they can, for ...

Writer-director Ahmed Alauddin Jamal is describing his film which he says holds a mirror to London's housing crisis in the ...

The cover of "Jamaica Road" beside author Lisa Smith. (Courtesy of Alfred A. Knopf) Deborah Becker speaks with British Jamaican author Lisa Smith about her debut novel "Jamaica Road." It centers ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Cases of tuberculosis (TB) in Britain rose by 5.5 percent in the past year and are at their highest levels since the 1980s, health authorities said on Tuesday. The Health Protection ...