Of all the compromises Labour made to take power, flag-shagging has done the least harm. A foolish pledge not to raise any of ...

The two magnificent west towers above the Great ... Britain. The Royal Standard is flown whenever the Sovereign is within the Abbey or its Precincts. It is also flown whenever the Sovereign opens ...

James's central ambition was to make these two very foreign countries into one new state, Great Britain ... National Library of Scotland and the Keeper of Manuscripts is unfolding a set of flag ...

Since Confederation, the Canadian national flag had been the British Union Jack - a symbol of Canada's former colonial status. The Red Ensign - a modified version of the flag of the British ...

amid rising tensions between Colonists and Great Britain. In 1777, Congress orders the creation of a flag featuring "stars in a new constellation"—the Stars and Stripes. 140 YEARS AGO ...