Throughout the month of October, Black History Month, which has been observed in the UK for more than 30 years, highlights and celebrates the contributions and achievements of people of African and ...

This article is part of The Athletic’s series marking UK Black History Month. To view the whole collection, click here. There can be a tendency to focus on telling traumatic stories during UK Black ...

Grotto at the Gibberd Garden, Essex, Uk. Image by Tim Sandle. Grotto at the Gibberd Garden, Essex, Uk. Image by Tim Sandle. When it comes to history the weird and the wonderful go hand-in-hand.

Key point: No matter how good, no military is perfect. For centuries, the sun never set on the British Empire. But eclipses there were, and more than a few that stained British arms. Like the Romans, ...