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The oldest complete section of wooden railway in the world has gone on display to the public for the first time following a three-year restoration project. The rare 18th century waggonway, which was used by horse-drawn carts to transport coal without getting stuck in mud, was unearthed...

The leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice party has accused Germany of 'rejecting' its World War II responsibilities. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who has made several controversial remarks about Warsaw's neighbour, went as far as to suggest Berlin should pay reparations. 'We are talking about...

New Pictish remains have been discovered at a fort thought to have been largely destroyed by a 19th-century development. Archaeologists uncovered a longhouse and a 1,100-year-old Anglo Saxon coin in a dig at Burghead Fort near Lossiemouth, Moray. Experts believe the fort was a significant seat...

The 25th James Bond film will be released on 8 November 2019, producers have confirmed. The currently-untitled movie will be written by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who worked on the last six films. James Bond 25: New film announced - but where's Daniel Craig? BBC News 25 July 2017 Craig's...

Game of Thrones is clearly inspired by the jostling of power that has happened in the British Isles for thousands of years—with a few more dragons peppered in. In reality, British history is littered with tales of murder and betrayal that make the Red Wedding look like...well, a normal wedding...

Military historian James Holland shares some lesser-known facts about the evacuation and the fighting that led up to it… 9 things you (probably) didn’t know about Dunkirk In 1940, as British troops retreated through France under fire from an advancing German Army, a massive evacuation was...

Hitler's spies secretly compiled information about British housewives and the UK's 'homes of misery' years before they planned to invade Britain. German Military Intelligence were horrified by the 'catastrophic' condition of cities where their invading forces would set up garrisons. They also...

An elaborate steel works from nearly 200 years ago has been unearthed by archaeologists in Sheffield. The Victorian-era factory was discovered in a part of the city once famous for its steel industry, which at its height employed 150,000 people. Researchers excavating the site discovered...

An ancient Roman sarcophagus has been excavated from a building site in central London. The 1,600-year-old coffin found near Borough Market is thought to contain the remains of a member of the nobility. Ancient Roman sarcophagus found at London building site 18 July 2017 BBC News An...

A timber fishing trap exposed on the Hampshire coast dates back to Saxon times, it has been confirmed. The weir, built as a permanent wooden structure to catch fish as the tide ebbed, was found by chance on the shore of Southampton Water in 2005. Southampton Water fish trap dated to Saxon...

Neolithic markings carved into a stone in Orkney that were missed for years by archaeologists have been discovered by chance. The faintly incised "butterfly-like" motifs were revealed on Tuesday as sunlight lit up the rock at the "right moment, at the right angle". Experts believe the marks...

Think how many years have passed since there has been anything like it: British audiences expected to pack cinemas to see a British movie about one of the great British moments of World War II: Dunkirk. Christopher Nolan’s deafening epic about the evacuation from the northern French...

Passchendaele, Somme, Arras, Cambrai, Verdun, Dardanelles, Ypres and Jutland. They were not only the names of World War One battles, but also the names given to babies, usually in commemoration of a father or relation who fought and died there. It might sound strange to modern ears, but...