The 2024-25 session began with the State Opening of Parliament on 17 July 2024. The exact pattern of recesses can change and is normally slightly different for the two Houses.

Here are two of them, one on William Cobbett, the great early 19th century English radical journalist, and the other is about Charles Dickens. The historian AJP Taylor wrote in his memoir that ...

A viral video shows a member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom challenging the nation’s government with a report that over 250,000 young white girls have been raped in this century and that the ...

On the Ground Indicates that a Newsmaker/Newsmakers was/were physically present to report the article from some/all of the location(s) it concerns. Sources Cited As a news piece, this article cites ...

Of course, in the late 19th ... 20th century. 1910 New Year’s Eve party in NYC. Photo via Library of Congress Too Much Reveling in the New Year The passing of the old year into a new one has always ...

In 1925, the British engineer and inventor published a list of his predictions for the next 100 years, titled The Future. In it, he envisioned a world in which stairs and sidewalks can move ...

Sword of the Sutton Hoo burial, early 7th century, British Museum, London. Credit: Völkerwanderer / CC0 1.0 Archaeologists have unearthed a rare sixth-century sword at an ancient burial site in Kent, ...