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Someone in Iceland is working to run a glacier for president. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AeKTX #Britain #news #LondonMarathon

When it founded the NHS, Labour was a socialist party (it no longer is) and on the first day the new parliament met, its MPs sang (or in some tellings, bellowed) the socialist anthem, “The Red Flag.” Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AeeE5 #NHS #NationalHealthService

I'd never say the British are a nation of disapproving pedants, but a certain kind of person shudders at the word "gotten." They make its use such a pleasure. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AeqZR #language #EnglishLanguage

The King's Book of Sports was a proclamation allowing (after Sunday afternoon services) dancing, archery, “leaping, vaulting, or any other such harmless recreation. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AevLd #history #EnglishHistory #SportsHistory

The name Bluestockings came not from what the w\omen wore but from a single man at one of those salons–or so the story goes. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/Aevou #feminism #Bluestockings #history

The early English novel’s reader, moralists reminded anyone who’d listen, was typically a woman. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AS3yE #Britain #literature #novels

Medieval England had two mutually dependent centers of power, the church and the state. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/Ae4to #England #history

In the early 1930s, fascism was respectable, not only for its antisemitism but because it offered a bulwark against communism, which in the midst of the Great Depression was a powerful force. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AfCZh #Britain #Antifascism #history

Black American soldiers during World War II Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AfDCm #BlackHistory #England #Britain

Stonehenge was built in several stages, each one involving a different configuration. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AfD8x #Stonehenge #prehistory #BritishHistory

Lots of coins find their way from British soil to museum display cases, but what happens after they find their way to a museum? Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AfLQe #England #EnglishHistory

Even when Mary took the English throne and restored the Catholic Church, she couldn’t re-establish the monasteries. The real estate had been sold off. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AfLS1 #HenryVIII #History #EnglishHistory

The Lincolnshire Rising led to a larger rebellion, the Pilgrimage of Grace. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AfL9M #HenryVIII #History #EnglishHistory

In "Clarissa," a sequestered and virtuous young thing writes letters to her one and only friend because letters are the social media of the day. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AfOJn #literature #EnglishNovel #BooksLiterature

The Pilgrimage of Grace & Bigod’s Rebellion, or dissolving the monasteries part 3 Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AfqiJ #EnglishHistory #History #England

Amateur archeologists are having a moment. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/Af29l #BritishArchaelogy #Britain #AmateurArcheologists

The Neolithic farmers who built Stonehenge tended to cremate their dead, keeping them safe from the nosy archeologists who they knew would eventually come snooping around. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/Af3Xe #Stonehenge #BritishHistory

English history? It's simple. An Edward, for example, married an Elizabeth, offending a Richard, but dozens of Edwards, Elizabeths, and Richards were running loose in and close to the royal family. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/Af4nL #history #England #EnglishHistory

Although the crossbow looks high-tech compared to the longbow, it dates back to 650 BC China. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/Agrqs #longbow #HundredYearsWar #England

We can get a surprising glimpse of late stone age life from the island of Orkney, off the northeast coast of Scotland. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/Agsya #skarabrae #history #Britain