The chlorinated chicken, together with the hormone-treated cow and investor state dispute settlement system, was responsible for killing off an EU-US trade deal, known as TTIP, in the court of public opinion. Not content with befouling EU-US trade talks, the chickens have re-emerged as obstacles in the way of the UK brokering a landmark post-Brexit pact with Washington.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is the national record of men and women who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century.
The British Parliamentary Papers represent a significant source of important and largely untapped information about New Zealand in the mid-nineteenth century. They comprise reports, statutes, correspondence and other documentation sent between the Colony and the Government in Britain and cover all aspects of life and events in the colony at the time. They began in the late 1830s when no local collection or publication of such material was being made. By the 1850s, the New Zealand Government had started to publish similar documents in their Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives (AJHRs). However, many reports continued to be sent directly to Britain and were not published locally.
We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release them back into...
On December 12, 1955, English engineer Christopher Cockerell filed the patent for his new invention, the hovercraft, a craft capable of traveling over land, water, mud or ice and other surfaces both at speed and when stationary.
Gives a relatively detailed account of the events that shaped the creation of the United Kingdom from 1543 onwards with a particular focus on the Acts of Union of 1707 and 1800. Part of the BBC History website.
A collection of multimedia learning materials focused on the industrial and social history of Leicester in the 20th century - curated by the University of Leicester and released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license . Focused on 4 main themes: Conservation and Urban Reg
Collection of documentary audio and video clips from the BBC Archives. Focused on the second half of the 20th century and organised in 6 main sections: Overview; Rebuilding Britain; End of Empire; Social Change; Windrush; and Jubilee