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What was life like for an ordinary woman in the Tudor period? Tudor women: what was life like? The Tudor dynasty...

Richard Littlejohn with the big stories of the last few days: Brexit (obviously); police being called to a rubber duck race at Bourton-on-the-Water; a man called George Freeman, who nobody has ever heard of, announcing he WON'T be running for Prime Minister; Escape To Victory; and an MP who's...

A "selfie" of engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel as he shivered on a rattling train in the 1830s is to go on show. The self-portrait was drawn as he travelled on an "ice chiller" train on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Brunel built the Great Western Railway between London and the West of...

A town has used a 15th Century law in a bid to reinstate a medieval punishment device. While rotten cabbage-throwing is unlikely, Thame Town Council in Oxfordshire hopes stocks will attract tourists. Councillor David Bretherton said the idea came about when he was reading about "weird laws" in...

‘We can stop this madness through a vote in parliament’, tweeted Labour MP David Lammy. ‘I wouldn’t rule anything out’, former PM Tony Blair told the BBC. ‘We want a second referendum’, said 41,118 people from Vatican City, population 800, in a petition that is now being investigated for fraud…...

The liberals and luvvies, so used to lording it over the "little people" and getting their own way for so long, are mightily angry that the British people have defied them by voting to leave the EU. Ahhh diddums! One of these people is a British "comedian" called John Oliver, who went on an...

Former Mayor of London, Vote Leave campaigner, and possibly soon-to-be Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the EU referendum result: I cannot stress too much that Britain is part of Europe – and always will be Boris Johnson 26 June 2016 British people will still be able...

Don’t panic. The economy will do just fine. In fact, with solid political leadership and sound policy making, it is more likely that growth will surprise on the upside than disappoint on the downside in the coming years. Now that the country has voted to leave the EU, what lies ahead...

A fearless woman has broken tradition to become the first female ever to compete again male jousters at an English castle. Traditionally no females took part in the dangerous tournaments during Medieval times because all elite knights were male. But today 46-year-old Nicky Willis, a leading...

We did it. We really did it, just as I always hoped and suspected we would. If David Cameron had paid more attention to the prophetic words of the writer G. K. Chesterton, he might have seen it coming, too. Chesterton is probably best known as the author of the Father Brown detective stories...

Here is a list of some of the winners (including Liz Hurley, Michael Caine, car registration plates and the Queen) and some of the losers (including Eddie Izzard, Bob Geldof and Benedict Cumberbatch) of the EU referendum.... RICHARD KAY: From Liz Hurley to Eddie Izzard and Sir Michael Caine...

There have been two great democratic moments in post-war British politics. The first was in the 1945 General Election when victory for the Labour Party under Clement Attlee swept away the old British establishment and brought in a new era of social democracy. The second is today. Just...

Furious European leaders scrambled to save the EU project today as Brussels chief Jean Claude Juncker told Britain not to expect an 'amicable divorce'. He and other EU leaders are demanding Britain opens negotiations 'immediately' even though David Cameron appealed for calm and said...

There were two referendums on Thursday. The first was on membership of the EU. The second was on the British establishment. Leave won both, and the world will never be the same again... This was the day the British people defied their jailers Tim Stanley 24 June 2016 The...

Historian Robert Saunders looks back at the first UK-wide referendum, held in 1975 on the United Kingdom’s continued membership of the European Economic Community (EEC), and considers what we can learn from its outcome… Britain decides: the first European referendum On 23 June 2016, Britain...

Fragments of pottery and coins unearthed by archaeologists have revealed a small town in Devon had links to the Roman Empire. The artefacts were found at a dig in the village of Ipplepen, which is thought to have been the site of an early Romano-British settlement. Experts say the discovery is...

George MacDonald Fraser is remembered for his series of novels starring Harry Flashman, a skirt-chasing rogue and officer caught up in the great military campaigns of Victorian Britain. The acclaimed author was an unabashed patriot given to colourful views. A few years before he died in...

The Queen has been canvassing opinion on the EU debate by asking dinner companions: "Give me three good reasons why Britain should be part of Europe." Her Majesty's biographer, Robert Lacey, reported the Queen's comments and suggested they may mean the Queen favours withdrawal from...

Politicians are making their final pitch for votes on the last day of campaigning before the EU referendum. David Cameron, Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron will address rallies arguing the UK will be better off and safer with a Remain vote in Thursday's poll. Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage...

Who is really poisoning public debate? Who is it that has turned what ought to have been a smart and deep discussion about Britain and the EU into a prejudice-fest? I know we’re meant to think it’s the Leave campaign, with its cries of ‘The Albanians are coming!’ and ‘Oh my God...