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A water company carrying out works in Glasgow has uncovered what has been described as 'the most significant archaeological find in a generation'. Remains of two Scottish castles were unearthed during a project to upgrade the city's waste water infrastructure. The team of archaeologists...

In the early 19th century, William Cunnington discovered a burial site near Stonehenge. In one of the barrows he excavated at Normanton Down, the remains of a woman were found alongside some of the most well-preserved jewellery historians have ever seen. Now, more than 200 years later, these...

The battle over Tintagel Castle, the legendary birthplace of King Arthur, is continuing after a group of 200 Cornish historians accused English Heritage of turning the site into a Disney-style theme park. The Cornwall Association of Local Historians argued the organisation is mixing fact and...

So that's it then, is it? We lit up the Eiffel Tower, the Brandenburg Gate and the Trevi Fountain in the colours of the Belgian flag. The usual suspects from Obama to Cameron to Hollande trotted out well-practised lines about showing solidarity with our Belgian neighbours. Then the...

Repeatedly in the run up to the EU in/out referendum on 23 June, David Cameron has told the British people that Britain is safer within the EU and that we need to remain in the organisation for the sake of our security. But, as a deadly bomb explodes in the EU's capital, just yards from EU...

I think most of us know what the response from social media and Europe's politicians is going to be in the wake of the Brussels terrorist attacks. It will be the usual standard fare, which we have been subjected to before after previous terrorist attacks. But for those who don't know what the...

The CEO of Indian Wells has stepped down after suggesting the lady players of the WTA should get on their knees every night to thank Nadal and Federer for carrying the game. This is despite the fact that, as Katie Hopkins points out, he was RIGHT, and so, too, was Novak Djokovic who has also...

They may have been penned around 450 years ago, but Shakespeare's plays about love and loss are still as popular today. Now the British Library has posted 300 manuscripts, maps and illustrations online to show what likely inspired the Bard to write plays such as Hamlet and The Tempest...

Pork pies, Pimm's and a plastic fork: M&S unveil Queen's 90th birthday party hamper It is, says Marks and Spencer, a hamper fit for a Queen. The retailing giant has scoured the country to find the best British products to feed the 10,000 flag-waving members of the public congregating on...

The name of a new polar research vessel will be chosen by a panel of experts, even if the public overwhelmingly votes to call it Boaty McBoatface. Lord West, ex-First Sea Lord, said he was rather proud "silly names" had been suggested but hoped none were chosen. The Natural Environment...

PEOPLE can gain a fascinating insight into how youngsters were educated 350 years ago after Keele University in Staffordshire revealed it owns one of the world's oldest children's books. The battered leather pocket book, called A Guide For The Childe And Youth, was published in 1667 and once...

Was Shakespeare an avid gardener? We’ll never know for sure – but he does sound as if he knew what he was talking about... Shakespeare's most magical plots: To commemorate the 400th anniversary of his death, an enchanting new book visits the gardens the Bard drew his inspiration from...

Visitors will be able to walk around Lord Nelson's cabin following a major renovation of his flagship HMS Victory. The ship's visitor route at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard has expanded by 80%, with access to the Poop Deck and carpenter's store. Prof Dominic Tweddle, director general of...

Wielding blood-drenched chains with razor-sharp knives attached, a group of hardline Muslims flay the skin from their backs as a baying crowd looks on, chanting and beating their chests. With the force of each new sickening swing of the bladed instruments, more blood spatters through...

Prince Harry has been given a traditional VIP welcome to Nepal as five young virgins gave him flowers and a garland to signify luck and purity. The Panchakanya - Sanskrit for five unmarried women, or five virgins - welcomed the Prince to the ancient Patan Durbar Square in the heart of...

As stresses of mass migration in Europe build, a Washington think-tank claims that an army of 450,000 men are needed to stop the seismic turbulence in the Middle East, writes Max Hastings. Could this lead to WAR in Europe? Apocalyptic, yes. But even if conflict can be avoided, MAX HASTINGS...

Elizabeth II holds up a carrot, and Elizabeth the horse wolfs it down. At which point a wonderful smile breaks out on the most famous face on the planet. It’s a well-worn cliché to talk about the Queen looking ‘radiant’ but that is the only word to describe her look. There’s an obvious...

Many people have probably been wondering who the woman looking through the telescope was in the latest Google Doodle. The woman was Caroline Herschel, who was the sister of British astronomer William Herschel, the man who discovered Uranus in 1781 as well as two of Uranus's moons, Oberon and...

On 19 March every year, millions of people in developed countries spend 60 minutes of their lives reeling in collective guilt over the evil of fossil fuels. But when people turn off the lights for Earth Hour, they only hold a candle to their own ignorance... The dangerous narcissism of...

Rod Liddle on Taiwanese metropolitan liberal left author Hsiao-Hung Pai's new book... Books What makes the white working class angry? Twits like Hsiao-Hung Pai She doesn’t seem to understand — or care — why the white working class of Luton are so angry, but finds the...