Many people often assume that the terms England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom are interchangeable, but they’re ...

The UK’s coronavirus crisis has reignited one of the country’s most bitter political debates: Can the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland survive as a union of four nations?

Like Great Britain, the United Kingdom comprises England, Scotland and Wales, with the addition of Northern Ireland. However just to confuse matters, the term Britain is sometimes used to refer to ...

THE FOUR NATIONS: A History of the United Kingdom Frank Welsh, . . Yale Univ., $35 (536pp) ISBN 978-0-300-09374-2 ...

The United Kingdom is a state made up of the historic countries of England, Wales and Scotland, as well as Northern Ireland. It is known as the home of both modern parliamentary democracy and the ...

Queen Elizabeth II is the monarch of fourteen countries in addition to the United Kingdom. Barbados’s transition to a republic has revived debate over the future of the Crown.