Scholars say Aethelstan was likely the first king of England. But the story of his rise to power is complex. A portrait of Aethelstan, who was King of England from 924 until 939 A.D, in a book ...

How much do you really know about the history of the United Kingdom? What passes for “British history” is, all too often, merely the history of England with bits of the histories of Scotland, Wales ...

Which is the largest nation in Europe to lack a state of its own? The Catalans? The Walloons? Wrong and wrong. It is the English: population 50 million-plus, all of them under the government of a ...

A satirical illustration of King Charles II escaping. From The Comic History of England by Gilbert Abbott A. Beckett, illustrated by John Leech [Bradbury, Agnew & Co., London, 1850.] A satirical ...

Since the publication of my William the Conqueror in the Yale University Press English Monarchs series in October 2016, I have often been asked how long it took me to write the book. In response, I ...

There have been only eight reigning queens in the history of the British monarchy Stephanie Kaloi is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She has also written ...