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The Spectator's Rod Liddle has made a remarkable video in which he interviewed several Remainers to let them have their say... Coffee House Why We Must Have A Second Referendum – Now! Rod Liddle...

Here, David Hamilton, author of Wild Ruins, explores eight of the most fascinating and mysterious ruins in Britain… 8 of Britain’s most mysterious ruins...

It is a 5,000-year-old jigsaw that has been revealed as one of the most pristine Stone Age arrowheads ever found in Britain. Archaeologists have unearthed an inch long barb of flint that matches another larger part found five years earlier just seven feet away. Together they constitute a...

Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire is most famous as the birthplace of Winston Churchill and home of his relatives the Dukes of Marlborough. It now has another claim to fame — new research has discovered its woodland is home to the greatest collection of ancient oak trees in Europe. At...

What a difference a few weeks make. On June 24, just after Britain’s “Brexit” shock, the United Kingdom was apparently facing political chaos, financial crisis, and economic disaster. The prime minister was standing down, the stock market and currency were in freefall, and all the wise...

German industrial giant Siemens has said it will continue to invest in the UK, despite earlier warnings that a vote to leave the EU could affect its future activities in the country. Siemens chief executive Joe Kaeser told a number of media organisations that the company remained fully...

There are around 1,000 ancient stone circles dotted around Britain. Here, BBC History Magazine takes a look at some of them... Britain’s prehistoric stone circles...

Researchers in Israel have made what they say is the first discovery of a Philistine cemetery. The discovery, made in 2013 and finally revealed on Sunday, may yield answers to an enduring mystery surrounding the origins of the Philistines. It comes at the end of a 30-year excavation by the...

We made the right choice to leave. We will not suffer economically in the long run unless people who have yet to exhaust their credibility insist on talking the country down, and the gullible believe them. The evidence is already there in the stock market: and even as Europe buckles...

An archaeological dig is under way on what experts say is a rare undisturbed Bronze Age burial mound in Lancashire. Digging got under way this week at the site near Morecambe Bay, which was found by metal detectors, and is being excavated under expert supervision. Archaeologists believe...

The UK's oldest person has died at the age of 113. Gladys Hooper, from the Isle of Wight, who celebrated her birthday on 18 January, passed away at Highfield Nursing Home in Ryde at lunchtime yesterday. The former concert pianist was born in south-east London in 1903, the same year the...

Henry VIII may have had six wives but he also had several mistresses, too.... Henry VIII’s mistresses: who else did the Tudor king sleep with...

A devastating report published yesterday reveals why the decision of the British people to unshackle themselves from the crumbling European Union was so right. In clear and simple language, it portrays the EU as an organisation in profound crisis, with declining growth, a tottering...

PM David Cameron has formally rejected a second Brexit referendum despite an official petition which received more than 4.1 million signatures. The petition, which was started by a Brexit supporter William Oliver Healey, urged a re-run in case there was a narrow Remain victory...

The fact is that barely four in ten 18 to 24 year olds bothered to get out of bed to vote in the referendum — which means, by my admittedly dodgy maths, that those who didn’t register a preference to stay in the EU outnumbered those who did by two to one. Mind you, this hasn’t stopped...

British motorists confused about what will happen to the EU stars on their number plates in the wake of Brexit are using stickers and black tape to cover up the offending flags. Many are already furious about the prospect of paying to remove the EU plates that were forced into...

A new full-length portrait of the Queen commissioned to mark her 90th birthday year has been unveiled in Edinburgh - in front of the monarch herself. Commissioned by the Royal Company of Archers, the Queen is pictured in the ceremonial robes of The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of...

Brexit makes the prospect of Britain striking a trade deal with China more likely, trade officials from both countries have said. Xing Houyuan, an official at the state-backed Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, said China was being frustrated by the EU...

Draped in ceremonial robes, the Queen and Prince Philip led senior members of the Royal Family as they arrived for the annual Order of the Thistle service. The royal couple were joined by Princess Anne, Prince William and Knights of the Order for the proceedings at St Giles' Cathedral...

Here, author and historian Tracy Borman investigates the long history of the Tower of London... Anne Boleyn, Guy Fawkes and the princes: a brief history of the Tower of London One of the most iconic historic sites in the world, the Tower of London was not just the backdrop but the lead actor...