British Newspaper Archive

Bollards of London

List of people banned from entering the United Kingdom

The mysterious coffins of Arthur’s Seat (via)

Mixed Britannia - marrying an alien

Why doesn't Britain make things any more?


Japanese tourists warned – don’t talk to Scots in football shirts

British Library scans 18th and 19th-Century newspapers

Why the super-rich love the UK

British Newspaper Archive

Queen Victoria's private journals published online

Descriptive illustrated catalogue of the sixty-eight competitive designs for the 1890 great tower for London

Antique & Historical Maps of Britain

Britain Is 'Bankruptcy Tourism' Hotspot

Fight To Save Village From Sea Erosion

10 Unfortunate Fates of English Kings

How to draw the Union Jack — accurately

10 Very Strange British Traditions

The British Library - The world's knowledge

Traces found of the earliest Britons from 900,000 years ago

How Britain has changed since 1997

The Best of British - The American's guide to British slang NSFW TEXT

London Lives 1690 to 1800 ~ Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis (via)

The British Library are creating the first nationwide sound map

10 Things Not to Do in London

Antique & Historical Maps of Britain

A Proper Pea-Souper – The Terrible London Smog of 1952

The Truth Behind Big Ben

Breathtaking Britain: Nature's beauty from dusk til dawn

Sudden death for thousands of trees

What Not To Do In London

British Utopian Experiments 1325 - 1945

Cleverness is no more. This is a dumb Britain

Money Does Grow on Trees

Randomness Guide to London

What Not To Do In London: The Top Five Tourist Mistakes

Stunning colour film of 1920s London

Pensioner's playground: London to open its first exercise area for older people

Woman becomes first prosecuted for failing to report treasure

How Britain is using classical music as a form of social control

The dispossessed: Babies buried four to a grave - not Dickens but London today

Odd-shaped rock found in garden is dinosaur bone from 135m years ago

Bad weather blamed for Scotland having 'more people with ginger hair'

Mother branded as abuser for telling daughter of caesarean

United Kingdom 2

British followers of Japanese fashion

Museum of British Folklore

Search British Newspapers From 1800-1900

The British Lawnmower Museum

Britain’s dirty little secret as a dumper of toxic waste

Sin bins for worst families

England's Tiananmen - 190 years ago today, cavalry were sent charging into a group of thousands of protesters, in what became known as the Peterloo Massacre

Friends reveal Prince Harry's disguise

Mayor is held in search for knicker thief

A nation of bad parents: Britain's youngsters amongst world's worst for drinking, smoking and teenage pregnancy, warns the OECD

UK's ancient woodland being lost 'faster than Amazon'

British Shin Kicking Championship 2008

10 Crazy Royals

Return to sender: Artist puts Royal Mail to the test

15 Fascinating Facts About Medieval England

Smugglers' Britain. Explore the fascinating story of smuggling in 18th and 19th century Britain, when high taxes led to an dramatic increase in illegal imports.

British seaside cabins

Dimming down: How the brainpower of today's 14-year-olds has slipped 'radically' in just one generation

The cat who came in from the cold. After 20 years living in a remote and derelict stone cottage without electricity, the famed tattooed 'leopard man of Skye' has moved into a flat.

Tiny Shetland island declares independence

Father-of-four finds 12-strong colony of illegal immigrants living in his LOFT

Scottish tourist attraction bans English visitors in revenge for 1298 battle

Britain will be Europe's biggest country by 2060 with 77m people

British arrests soar 32% in Spain

Bastardy and Baby Farming in Victorian England

Father's Day cards banned in Scottish schools

London’s Lost Rivers

Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic Explorer

National Risk Register

England's Rock Art

Flatulent cow puts wind up locals

UK planning to monitor and record every phone call, web page, and email sent by citizens

Creatively Converted Sea Forts of Great Britain: Strange Adaptive Reuse of Military Architecture

The Origins of Some English Place Names

The Maasai warriors' guide to England

Genmaps: Old maps of UK

London is Free - Your online guide to free events in our expensive capital

Castles & Illustrated Walks from the Tyne to the Tweed

Newly released UFO files. A wide range of UFO-related documents covering the years 1978–2002.

Caught on camera: Incredible moment surfers are hit by 50ft wave off Cornwall

Chorographia Brritanniæ. Images and commentary on the Chorographia Britanniae, an atlas of the counties of England and Wales, first published in 1742.

The break-up of the UK now appears inevitable

The Wonderful North

The National Archives | Public Information Films. Nostalgia time for most of you Brits as on The National Archives' website you can view complete public information films from 1945 - 2006.

A Collection Of Bizarre British Contests

Seahenge

BBC - British History Timeline

11 Inventions you didn't realise the British created

The Glasgow Story

The UK family: In statistics

London, Sugar & Slavery

Oscar Wilde voted greatest British wit

Revealed: Britain, 100 years ago - in living colour

Dragon to sit on Union Jack?

Sat Lav. Shame it's only in London as the UK generally is woefully short of public toilets.

Orphan told pregnancy 'can pay for A-levels'. The UK is now officially beyond a joke.

Rip off Britain

Great Torrington Scarecrow competition. Photos on Flickr

The sorry story of how Scotland lost its 17th century empire

The power of the postcode

EU gives up on 'metric Britain'

Duke of Edinburgh gaffes plotted on Google Maps.

10 Things Not To Do In London

Dam-busting 'megaflood' made Britain an island

4,000 people a week trying to leave UK

'Britain for sale' as more foreign firms snap up UK businesses

Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the UK, once published a student guide on 'being a parasite' and living off the state

Remembering Greenham Common, 25 years later

Woman gets Asbo banning her from sea after 50 suicide attempts that cost taxpayers £1m

Most spied-upon road in Britain Still plagued by crime

What the Hell is Prince Charles Doing?

British Lawnmower Museum

British castles

Beautiful pics of St. Paul's Cathedral through the ages and it's restoration

Slave Britain

John Speed’s collection of maps was published in 1611 as The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine: presenting an exact geography of the kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the iles adioyning: with the shires, hundreds, cities and shire-townes, within ye kingdome of England.

Top ten burglary hotspots named

The Asbo teenager who caused 40 per cent crime rise in one town

How to live like a prince: the shabby style, Sloaney slang and social rules of William and Harry's inner circle


Days of toxic darkness - The Killer Fog Of 1952

Kids to be taught Britishness

Channel Tunnel photos

Mad Maldon Mud Race

Brightons West Pier on Fire : A Slideshow

The Duke of Westminster: so rich and so very foolish. Britain's richest man was exposed as a serial user of prostitutes.

London: A Life in Maps

The property collapse. Millionaire left with even better sea view after cliff landslide.

Human billboards and sandwich board advertising on the streets of London UK

UK is accused of failing children

A photo slideshow ofthe moment the Royal Family battled to retain their composure after Prince Philip appeared to break wind

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834

Then And Now. Photographs of the East End of London, now and 100 years ago.

Odd London Signs

The Humber Bridge Board

Genmaps: Old and Interesting Maps of England, Wales and Scotland

Dictionary of Victorian London - Exploring Victorian London

The History of the British Transport Police

Giant Elephant charms London

How London has changed in the past 108 years—and how it hasn't

Wiltshire's Underground City - Burlington

Residences of the British Royal Family

Legacies: UK Local History Close to You

The Orders of Chivalry

Avery Ant for (Bloody)King

Princess Diana in 10 seconds

St George's iJacket

Severn Bore surfer breaks record

Celebrating the Queen's 80th Birthday - 80 facts about The Queen

York Minster - Image Gallery

Headington Shark

How do you know that you've been in London too long?

St George's Day holiday campaign

Castles of Britain Photo Gallery

Days Out UK

Flags of the British Empire (Circa 1920)

English Heritage - Stonehenge & the History of England

Good Beach Guide 2005

1920s: the decade that changed London

The London Bridge Museum & Educational Trust

Glasgow Detail and Hidden Glasgow: photographs, images, Glasgow history, culture, regeneration

Surname Profiler Project Website. For UK readers.

History of the English Language

UK nights

London Slang - Introduction

Guerrilla gardeners wage turf war

United Kingdom

Scottish Urban Legends

BBC presenter says Queen Mother was 'ghastly bigot

600ft jellyfish crop circle found in Oxfordshire field

Britain's water mills given role in clean energy generation

Britain's rudest place names

Huge Iron Age haul of coins found

The Bethnal Green Disaster

Google Earth reveals fish trap made from rocks 1,000 years ago off British coast

Queen Elizabeth II rules world's worst copyright regime

10 British Disasters From Recent Times

Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling

FixMyStreet and FixMyStreet Canada.

George Orwell, Big Brother is watching your house. The Big Brother nightmare of George Orwell's 1984 has become a reality - in the shadow of the author's former London home.

Moving Here - 200 years of Migration to England. Huge database of photographs, personal papers, government documents, maps, art objects, sound recordings, and video clips tells the stories of people who migrated to England in the last two hundred years.

Freecycle Groups in the UK

The state has 266 ways to enter your home



Still a handful for Mum, the Walton sextuplets at 23


BBC - Interactive British Timeline

Design Museum London

The British School Uniform Galleries

BBC NEWS - Native American DNA found in UK

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Ensure that cities between Birmingham and Newcastle, especially Manchester, are included on the BBC Weather Map

A brief history of British Holiday Camps

Myths of British ancestry

A United Kingdom? Maybe

Dickens' London Map

Britain for Americans

Utopia Britannica. British Utopian Experiments 1325 - 1945.

Revealed: My life with the Royals - by Beatrice's ex

MoneySavingExpert.com. Great site for people in the UK.

Help build a public UK postcode database

I Eat Rubbish - passive debris collector floating on the thames river, eats equivalent of 800,000 plastic bottles a year

The Map of Early Modern London

Jedi census phenomenon. A phenomenon in which 390,000 British citizens listed their religion as Jedi Knight on a 2001 census form, which made Jedi the fourth-largest religion in England and Wales. See also Jedi census statistics.

Peter Dench Photographry - Drinking of England

Virtual tour of 10 Downing Street

The Sun Online - News: One in ten Britons is a shoplifter

London-on-Sea: the future of a city in decay

First female Beefeater appointed

Mysterious Britain, a guide to the legends, folklore, myths and mysterious places of Britain

Sealand is for sale (or "transfer")

Britains stupidest call centre customers

United Nations of Britain

Odd tourist queries revealed

Panoramic Pictures - England

London's Transport Museum

Beach Huts

English Accents and Dialects


Michael Kenna - Ratcliffe Power Station

Fears over Battersea Power Station chimneys and Battersea Power Station on Flickr

Historic UK phone books put online

List of Strange Things - An American in London

Buildings that bless the seaside

Walks in and around London photo gallery

Brighton photos - street scenes, coastal scenes, piers, skylines and architecture photographs taken around Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK


The Great British Venn Diagram

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. The longest officially-recognised place name in the United Kingdom.

Rude Britain - Wikipedia

Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Ole-Biscuitbarrel. A candidate for the British parliament in 1981. I never knew this!

Scottish Seaside Entertainment

The Romans in Britain - 100BC to AD450. The history of the Romans in Britain - 100BC to AD450. Along with insights into Roman life, the military and how the Romans changed Britain.

British Newspapers: News in UK national / local media. All the British press online.

Yorkshire Dales

Hero-Myths and Legends of the British Race

Hadrian's Wall Country Website

The Great Stink Of London

Subterranean rivers of London

Collect Britain - Putting history in place

Live Webcams in England

Britain for Americans

Historic Ales of Scotland

London's traditional and historic pubs

A guide to British pub etiquette

Innocent English: Funny English Mistakes from around the world

The London Oil Fire Pictures

British Panoramics

Scottish Vernacular Dictionary

The British National Lottery - the facts you never knew

How Britain got the Calendar Wrong

Evolution of the English Alphabet in a GIF stylee. Really cool.

Welcome to Whitley Decay 2006 Calender. Text is very small.

History of the Scottish Kilt

Descriptive Maps of London poverty

Rude Britain - 100 of the rudest place names in Britain. Now with added maps. Thanks Rob.

London to Brighton Veteran Car Run 2005


Liam's Pictures from Old Books. Over 680 scanned images, engravings and pictures from old books, all public domain, most with multiple high-resolution versions.

Irish Dictionary Online. Translate English to Irish/Gaelic and vice-versa.

English Homophones

Fairground Heritage Trust

OEDILF - The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form

Victorian Slang Glossary

Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms of the UK

IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive

History of the English Language

English Currency 959-2000


Ambigues English. Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn.

What Does That Mean. This site is a free lexicon of English idioms, words, and catch phrases from around the world.

Soviet military maps of Britain

Thames Pilot

Line of succession to the British Throne

Medieval London Maps

The Great North. History from my part of the world.

Underground Kent. Underground kent is not just one person nor a organisation, we are a group of people who are interested in underground exploration.

Expatica dot com. You have reached the #1 English-language news & information source for expatriates living in, working in or moving to the Netherlands (Holland), Germany, France, Belgium or Spain. Expatica publishes eight websites and five country-oriented Survival Guides. Join us for news, events, online dating, job searching or house hunting - and make the most of expatriate life in Europe!

Ian's English Calendar. This site is intended to replace handbooks of dates for students of English history and literature. It is also accurate for European history outside of England, with the exception of the period 1582-1752. Students of Continental history will need to follow the link if they wish to date documents from this period.

English Handwriting 1500-1700: An Online Course

Palaeography tutorial. Palaeography is the study of old handwriting. This web tutorial will help you learn to read the handwriting found in documents written in English between 1500 and 1800.

Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge

screenonline. The definitive guide to Britain's film and TV.

Wales in a bottle

British Library Highlights tour

England, A Narrative History

Travels in Scotland: Castles and Towers

York Minster Virtual Tour

What to See in England

Essentialist Explanations


Maunsell Sea Forts. The Thames Estuary Army Forts, designed by Guy Maunsell, were constructed in 1942 to provide anti-aircraft fire within the Thames Estuary area (in Britain).

Historic Royal Palaces

Historic images of British buildings

Scotland's Secret Bunker

Strangest Pubs in Britain

Rude Britain is a 100-long list of the country's most double entendre-riddled towns, villages and streets.

Metropolitan Police History

Free 3D Models of Great Buildings. Includes Newcastle's very own crumbling Byker redevelopment.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Transport for London

Free electoral roll searches. Apparently it's slightly dated but still very handy for tracing people who you know often with phone numbers too.

Vindolanda Tablets Online

Newcastle: Definition and Much More From Answers.com

BBC - Voices. Here is my accent. An English to Geordie translator may be handy for you.

The Virtual Reality Tour of Hull, UK


Brighton and Hove's Daddy Longlegs

The Severn Bore Page

English Tongue Twisters

Antique & Historical Maps of Britain

Images of Snowdonia


The British Police Box.

Great Britain - Old Vintage Antique Postcards

Britain for Americans. A handy guide for Americans about to visit the U.K.


The Falkirk Wheel

reFLAG. MY ARSE. I'm anything but racist but this idea stinks.

Scottish Panoramic Photographs

On the West Coast of Ireland. More panoramic photographs.


Derelict London.com. Great site with loads of great photographs. Scroll down to the bottom for the different categories.

Photographs from one persons travel around the U.K. UK Tour 2005

Scotland's Secret Bunker

Irish Holocaust NSFW

The Best of British - The American's guide to British slang NSFW TEXT

London Map - Interactive map with panoramic photographs of Central London

Interesting English Language Trivia


Just so you know. Drawing the Union Jack Correctly

Reel Streets - British Film Locations 1920's To 1980's

Moving Here - 200 years of Migration to England

Collect Britain - Putting History in Place

English Accents and Dialects

The Bible, translated into Glaswegian