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Like in the EU in/out referendum in the UK, the liberals could today be defeated in another referendum, this time in the UK's closest neighbour, the Republic of Ireland. Voters today will vote 'Yes' or 'No' on a decision to replace the eighth amendment with a new article in Ireland's...

There is something peculiarly forgetful about the British. Every few years — the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011, the Diamond Jubilee and London Olympics in 2012 and, on Saturday, the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex — we receive...

Ten months from now, according to the doom-mongers, we could be back on rations for the first time since the Fifties. With lines of lorries backing up more than 30 miles from the Channel ports, Britain will face gridlock and food shortages. For a hellish mess of endless paperwork and...

A live German sea mine from World War Two has washed up on the Sussex coast. Bomb disposal teams inspected the device and work is taking place to make it safe while the tides allow access near Bognor Regis, Sussex Police said. The large metal device measures about 6ft and is thought to weigh...

Eight of the most famous royal weddings in British history... The 8 most famous royal weddings in British history BBC History Magazine Carolyn Harris Ahead of the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Saturday, royal historian and author Carolyn Harris...

Royalty remains important to most Britons. Windsor and its Great Park were thronged with hundreds of thousands of cheering, flag-waving people in the sunshine because the idea of “a family on the throne” remains compellingly comprehensible. The soap-operatic story of the marriage – the...

Kentwell Hall is a Tudor mansion with an exterior largely unchanged since 1550. Today it makes the perfect venue to experience the sights, sounds and smells of the 16th Century by recreating the Tudor period... Stepping back in time with the Tudors of Kentwell Hall By...

BBC Monitoring was set up on the eve of World War Two. Its main aim was to listen to, translate and inform the British Government about radio broadcasts from Germany and its allies, as well as from other countries... Death of Hitler: How the world found out from the BBC...

A 4,000-year-old intact clay urn containing a human cremation has been discovered in a Cornish field in a find described as 'nothing short of a miracle'. The set of burnt human remains was discovered near Looe in south east Cornwall and would have been part of a mysterious Bronze Age...

The National Portrait Gallery, off Trafalgar Square, is Britain's home for pictures of our greatest heroes, right? Wrong - if you're Alice Procter, who leads her Uncomfortable Art Tours around London's museums. ... What a funny old age we live in! A Left-wing art historian is running...

Tommy Charlton, the younger brother of 1966 World Cup winners Jack and Bobby has, like his brothers, helped England to lift a trophy - in the first ever over-60s walking football tournament. England beat Italy 3-1 at Brighton & Hove Albion's Amex Stadium in the Just International Cup, with...

A souped-up motorised shed has broken its own land speed record on a Welsh beach as it hit 100mph. The Fastest Shed smashed its previous 80mph record for the fastest shed at a land speed event at Pendine Sands in Carmarthenshire on Saturday. Owner Kevin Nicks said it was "marvellous" to hit...

Organisers of Prof Stephen Hawking's memorial service have seemingly left the door open for time travellers to attend. Those wishing to honour the theoretical physicist, who died in March aged 76, can apply via a public ballot. Applicants need to give their birth date - which can be any day up...

Why the government must defy the Remoaners and get Britain out of the EU customs union... LIAM HALLIGAN We’ve paid shameless EU £16 billion in tariffs for non-EU goods — and we should scrap the NCP The New Customs Partnership is an unworkable plan hatched in Whitehall which could topple...

Millions will be watching on TV on Saturday night as the 63rd Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Lisbon. It will be the first time the contest has been hosted in Portugal after Portugal won it for the first time in Kiev last year. Ireland will take part in the Eurovision Song Contest...

Of course, the lords insist they are only defending parliamentary democracy and sovereignty against government diktat. But this is a mockery of democracy. They never seemed concerned about UK parliamentary sovereignty while imposed EU rules rode roughshod over it for 40 years. Yet suddenly...

As the cold sting of winter finally starts to fade, so the literary festival season edges closer. An addition to the line-up this year is a five-day celebration of the legendary saga of Beowulf. How is it that a story written by an unknown author more than 1,000 years ago still captures...

Egyptian authorities have finished their quest to discover a secret chamber in the tomb of Tutankhamun - concluding that it does not exist. Previously, officials said they were "90% sure" of a hidden room behind the wall of the boy king's famous 3,000-year-old tomb. Tutankhamun 'secret...

A bone that is believed to be a relic of the fourth Pope has been found in a bin by waste collectors. The tiny fragment - thought to belong to St Clement, who died around 2,000 years ago - was found by a waste disposal company. 'Bone of Pope St Clement' is found abandoned in a London bin by...

A 16th century death warrant in which King Henry VIII orders an abbot be 'hung drawn and quartered' before deciding he should just be hanged has gone on public display. The letter is believed to have been dictated by the notoriously temperamental monarch, who then changed his mind and had the...