Historically, the British pound sterling has been stronger than many other currencies, including the U.S. dollar. The pound’s value was double that of the U.S. dollar as recently as 2007. In late ...

Just six months ago, in confident form and not looking at all like a man who would soon be out of work, David Cameron assured an audience in Hamburg that “I never want us to pull up the drawbridge and ...

Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British ...