Country Life

The artistic and historical treasures in Ireland that you must visit at least once in a lifetime

In our new series, Charlotte Mullins explores the visual history of the British Isles in 50 treasures, from Ice Age caves to Sutton Hoo. Her first instalment looks at the treasures to be found in ...
The Conversation

Wildlife wonders of Britain and Ireland before the industrial revolution – my research reveals all the biodiversity we’ve lost

Lee Raye received small research grants from the Society for the History of Natural History to carry out some of the archive work which contributed to this article. Lee is the author of The Atlas of ...
The Conversation

Too often learning ‘British history’ means learning ‘English history’ – but overburdened schoolteachers are not to blame

How much do you really know about the history of the United Kingdom? What passes for “British history” is, all too often, merely the history of England with bits of the histories of Scotland, Wales ...
Inverse

300 Years Before the Industrial Revolution, the UK’s Wildlife Looked Strikingly Different

Travel back with me a few hundred years before the industrial revolution, and the wildlife of Britain and Ireland looks very different indeed. Take orcas: While there are now less than ten left in ...
Smithsonian Magazine

One Hundred Years Ago, Northern Ireland’s ‘Unholy War’ Resulted in a Deadly Summer

Procession marking the opening of the Belfast-based Ulster parliament in June 1921 Photo by The Print Collector / Print Collector / Getty Images By the summer of 1921, Ireland’s bid for independence ...