Henry Bessemer's seasickness-proof vessel shows how even great inventors sometimes become fixated on crackpot ideas.

On July 19, 1843, the SS Great Britain was launched as the largest, most advanced ship in the world. How? It was the first to ...

LONDON — Keir Starmer and his renewed Labour Party won a landslide election in Britain on Thursday, according to the exit poll, ending 14 years of Conservative Party rule and moving toward a new ...

The Bank of England wants views on themes for its next series of banknotes, and BBC readers are full of ideas.