DR IAN MORTIMER:'Elizabethan England is dominated by the rich and powerful. But this is a world enjoyed by a privileged few. For most people, life is very different. In the countryside ...

Elizabeth I died without any heirs to succeed her, so her cousin James, who was the King of Scotland, came to the English throne as James I of England. James was the first monarch in the Stuart ...

Bulging waistlines have caused our life expectancy to lag behind other European countries, a study shows. People in England are now living roughly nine months less than they did in 2011 ...