A 1940 agreement between the US and the UK pegged the Pound-to-Dollar rate at $4.03 given the governments’ desire to maintain a relatively fixed rate. In the wake of the Bretton Woods conference ...

Before the arrival of the Romans, Britain was home to a wide array of sophisticated and thriving cultures.

The history of asbestos in the UK dates back to the late 1870s when the use of the material started, mainly on ships, steam engines and in power generating plants. By early 1900s the dangers of ...