The empire’s last hurrah?

Stephen Simmons says the British Embassy in Bangkok helped foster more than a century of excellent UK-Thai relations until Jack Straw and Boris Johnson came along to ...

There can’t be many shops that have received the distinction of being commemorated by the Royal Mint striking a coin in its honour. Not just any coin, but a £5 model, either in plain gold at £3,965, o

One of our most treasured landmarks, the Tower of London, represents 1,000 years of history. Almost three million visitors last year testify to the fact this is a universally loved destination – in th

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

It is almost 200 years since the Zoological Society of London opened its animal collection in Regent’s Park. There was a zoo before that, actually a menagerie, in a very surprising place, the Tower of

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