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Anti-racism activists brought traffic to a standstill on the road to Heathrow airport on a day of action which featured protests around the UK. Campaign group Black Lives Matter - or BLMUK - said it wanted to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the death of Mark Duggan, who was shot...

Do you think Winston Churchill ever worried about roller-skating in Stoke Newington? Strangely enough, he did, says AD Harvey, as papers in The National Archives show... Churchill on roller skates...

Robert Hutchinson, author of The Spanish Armada, reveals how poorly Tudor England was prepared for foreign invaders in 1588... The Spanish Armada: England's lucky escape...

Olympic and Wimbledon champion Andy Murray has been chosen to carry the flag for Great Britain at Friday's Rio 2016 opening ceremony. The 29-year-old was picked ahead of the likes of boxer Nicola Adams and rower Katherine Grainger. Murray, who inspired Great Britain to the Davis Cup in...

Faeces, dung and droppings… blood, urine and slops. These words hardly conjure the drama and glamour of Shakespeare’s Globe or the Elizabethan court, but for the ordinary inhabitants of Tudor towns, they were an everyday fact of life... “Mooke, fylthe and other vyle things” – Tudor dirt and...

A palace has been discovered at Tintagel in Cornwall where King Arthur is believed to have been born. The palace is believed to have been built in the sixth century - around the time that the king may have lived. Archaeologists say the building may belong to the rulers of the ancient...

Work to restore a stunning hall dubbed 'Britain's Sistine Chapel' will begin next month. The Painted Hall at the Old Royal Navy College in Greenwich, south east London, decorated by James Thornhill, has been described as the 'finest dining hall in Europe'. Now, the stunning hall, adorned with...

Heavily armed new police patrols have been deployed on the streets of London today after a wave of terror attacks in Europe. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe unveiled the plan to put more highly visible patrols, armed to the teeth with pistols and semi-automatic SIG...

The world’s vast Olympic conceit is that a host city should transform itself into a perfect Hollywood set of nice hotels, Olympic bus lanes and zero crime. According to this logic, winning an Olympic bid confers on a city a duty to prostrate itself for the benefit of people who visit for...

The final list of candidates in the running to succeed Nigel Farage as UKIP leader will be announced later. The party has been carrying out "one final round" of vetting to determine who is eligible to stand in the race. UKIP donor Arron Banks suggested Steven Woolfe will not be on the ballot...

Is Theresa May using the proposed new nuclear power station in Somerset to hold the French hostage over Brexit? Coffee House Is Theresa May using Hinkley Point to hold the French hostage over Brexit? Philip Sime...

A rare and extraordinary photo album showing British troops fighting the Boer War has been made public by the descendants of an army captain who fought in the conflict. It contains more than 150 black and white images of the First Battalion Rifle Brigade and provide a fascinating record...

A schizophrenic knifeman who tried to behead a musician during an Islamic State-inspired rampage at a Tube station has been sentenced to life in prison. Somali-born Muhiddin Mire, 30, targeted strangers at random in the ticket hall at Leytonstone Underground station in east London on...

Six in ten British workers believe Brexit will boost their salaries and are confident that quitting the EU will have a positive effect on their career prospects. A major survey of more than 28,000 users of Jobsite handed to MailOnline found that less than a third of people believe the...

Far from retreating into isolation, the UK economy now looks more open than ever. It is gradually dawning on all but the most stubborn in the Remain camp that the world still wants to do business with an independent UK — and that, freed from having to tag along with EU trade deals, this...

What was Britain like in AD 130, 80 years after the Roman conquest? Bronwen Riley takes a look... Welcome to Britannia: Roman Britain in AD 130 Bronwen Riley takes the pulse of Roman Britain in AD 130 and finds that, 80 years after the conquest, tensions are still simmering – especially in...

A 1,800-year-old Roman mosaic will go on public display for the first time in almost half a century. Archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler discovered it in the 1930s on the site of the ancient Roman city of Verulamium, now St Albans in Hertfordshire. The priceless work became the centrepiece...

Archaeologists have seen the face of a woman who has been dead for thousands of years in mysterious circumstances. Known as 'Ava', this Bronze Age woman died more than 3,700 years ago, but has been brought back to life in a two-dimensional image. Unusually, the Bronze Age woman was...

The truth is that the liberal elite (who, by nature, are slavishly Europhile) have always tried to depict him as a buffoon. But that was a fatal mistake. For Farage is motivated by deeply patriotic values that struck a chord with a majority of the British people. Though Farage enjoys a...

"Brexit would be devastating for the UK economy", the Remainers kept telling us during the referendum which they evantually lost. Yet the British economy is still suffering no devastating effects from Brexit. In fact, it's roaring ahead of the US and Europe... Let's not do ourselves down -...