If you live in the UK, you’ve probably had the irritating experience of trying to find United Kingdom in a list of countries, ...

Spike Island in Cork Harbour used to be home to monasteries and military bases before it became home to one of Europe's largest prisons.

these northern tribes constituted the largest kingdom in Dark Age Scotland. They repelled the conquests of both Romans and Angles, creating a true north-south divide on the British Isles ...

At this time, the Jutes and the Frisians from Denmark were also settling in the British Isles, but the Anglo-Saxon ... to small tribal groups, forming kingdoms and sub-kingdoms.