The City of London set out the rules for this spirit 300 years ago – but today just one City distillery still makes it.

The first episode of the British soap opera was broadcast live. It is still being produced 55 years later and is the world's longest running TV soap opera in production.

Archaeolgists have discovered stone and flint tools from the people who hunted deer and foraged for berries up to 11,000 years ago at what we now know as the University of Lincoln campus.

Will reflective paint stripes protect the fabled English park's ponies from speeding motorists?

Philip Larkin remains one of Britain’s most controversial – and loved – poets. His friend and colleague James Booth looks back.

The Warner Brothers Studios Harry Potter tour is magnificent, and I recommend it to any Harry Potter fan, or anyone interested in the movie making process.

An intricately carved gold ring containing a stone engraved with an image of a teenage Cupid, shown completely nude while holding a torch, was discovered near a village in the U.K. Spiral designs and bead-shaped spheres decorate the ring.

“The Mousetrap,” a murder-mystery written by the novelist and playwright Agatha Christie, opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. The crowd-pleasing whodunit would go on to become the longest continuously running play in history, with more than 10 million people to date attending its more than 20,000 performances in London’s West End.

Roald Dahl, the best-selling author of such children’s books as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, both of which were adapted for the big screen, dies at the age of 74 in Oxford, England. In addition to publishing a long list of children’s stories, Dahl wrote books for adults and penned numerous television scripts and screenplays, including the James Bond feature You Only Live Twice (1967) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), starring Dick Van Dyke.

At the Roman site of Cataractonium, now called Catterick in Yorkshire, England, an infant grave with intriguing amulets was found.

"Temptation" is the song New Order have played live more than any other.

Queen Mary I, the monarch of England and Ireland since 1553, dies and is succeeded by her 25-year-old half-sister, Elizabeth.

The boosting of Goya's "Portrait of the Duke of Wellington" so captured imaginations it ended up in "Dr. No"

Having guarded the Tower of London since 1485, the Yeoman Warders welcome 3 million visitors a year. But the Tower doesn’t shut down when the tourists leave – nor does its hidden pub.

Early in the morning, King James I of England learns that a plot to explode the Parliament building has been foiled, hours before he was scheduled to sit with the rest of the British government in a general parliamentary session.

Subterranean London is a crowded space. There's the London Underground, Joseph Bazalgette's sewer system, buried waterways like the River Fleet and the dead...

Today, tourists amble through the pretty village of Eyam. But 450 years ago, during the plague, the town’s terrible sacrifice meant its streets were filled with the wails of the dying.

Released in 1969.

The WWII-era SS Richard Montgomery sits just over a mile from shore – and locals fear that its 1,400 tonnes of potent explosives could go off at any time.

From the album 'Disintegration' (1989)