News about Great Britain, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Great Britain win nine medals including gold in the men's modern pentathlon team event on day 11 at the European Games.

Today’s country walkers owe much to the theodolite-lugging cartographers of the early Ordnance Survey ...

More than two hundred years ago, a man called William Smith did something extraordinary. He became the first person to map the geology of an entire nation. Not only was this scientifically significant ...

Britain is not bereft of toilets: Ms Ramster’s map lists over 10,000 “publicly-accessible toilets” in shops, restaurants and pubs, paid for by a coffee or a sheepish look.

The world map we know today owes its shape to the daring exploits of explorers who ventured into uncharted territories, ...

A MAP has revealed the happiest places to live in Great Britain – but does your home town make the cut? A study by property website Rightmove has revealed that Woodbridge in Suffolk has toppe… ...

Ancient DNA from Cheddar Man, a Mesolithic skeleton discovered in 1903 at Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, has helped Museum scientists paint a portrait of one of the oldest modern humans in ...

Mercantilism is an economic policy that favors exports to increase a country's wealth. Read about the effects of British mercantilism on its American colonies.

Mike Leigh’s 'Hard Truths', the director's first contemporary work since 2010, captures the fear, isolation and anxiety bubbling beneath the surface of modern Britain.

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY? shouted the Daily Mirror. As if anyone didn't know. What went on was just the kind of story on which the Mirror thrives. Although it had started out ...