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A JCB driver who dug up over 3,000 rare Roman coins which he put in a carrier bag will be able to keep the cash despite colleagues claiming it was a team find. Mark Copsey, 44, was levelling a recreation ground for a hockey pitch when he spotted something in the soil. He found a...

Booker Prize-winning author Thomas Keneally speaks to Rob Attar about the early history of his home country, Australia, discussing the remarkable progress of Britain’s sunstruck dungeon at the end of the world... Convicts and colonisers: the early history of Australia Booker Prize-winning...

One of the world's rarest collection of stained glass windows has been restored to its former glory after 200 years. More than 400 colour panels dating back to the 16th century were carefully removed from the famous Lady Chapel at Lichfield Cathedral, Staffordshire, and painstakingly cleaned...

A complete ban on on women wearing the veil should be introduced because it stops them from "smiling, waving and saying hello" in a very British way, a Tory MP has said. Philip Hollobone, the Conservative MP for Kettering in Northamptonshire, said it was "really, really sad" that Britain...

Hundreds of varieties of rare cider apples are being planted across England after being donated to the National Trust by a collector. The Netherton Late Blower, Slack-ma-Girdle and Billy Down Pippin are among the National Cider Collection grown in Tidnor Wood Orchard, Herefordshire...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel's school report has revealed that the celebrated engineer's teachers 'had brilliant expectations of his future', but thought his Latin needed work. The previously unseen report was written for a 15-year-old Brunel in 1821 while he was studying at the Institute of...

The bodies of about 800 children aged under six have been unearthed by archaeologists ahead of the construction of a road in Lancashire. They were among 1,967 bodies exhumed at St Peter's Burial Ground, which opened in 1821 in Blackburn. The large number of children found is being put down...

Why a Brexit could be very good for Britain... What Brexit would look like for Britain Life outside the EU could be very good for us Daniel Hannan, a Conservative MEP for South East England 23 January 2016 The...

A friend of the Duke of Cambridge has died attempting to make a solo crossing of Antarctica to raise money for one of the Duke's charities. Kensington Palace announced that Henry Worsley, 55, died in hospital in Chile, where he had undergone surgery after falling ill with bacterial...

From 19th-century studies on animal disguises to fashionable khaki on today’s catwalks, camouflage has a long and varied history. Here, writer Jude Stewart investigates… A brief history of camouflage From 19th-century studies on animal disguises to fashionable khaki on today’s catwalks...

Three dead sperm whales found washed up on a beach in Lincolnshire are "believed to be from the same pod" as a whale which died at Hunstanton, Norfolk. HM Coastguard said two of the whales were found on a beach near Skegness at about 20:30 GMT on Saturday, while a third was discovered earlier...

Since its inception in 1956, what we now call the European Union has attempted to control events and, when that proves impossible, to ignore them. That strategy appears finally to have failed, to judge by the new panic over migration. That failure raises two questions: does the...

The Anglo-Saxon age in Britain was one of the most mysterious and fascinating in history – and the inspiration for film adaptations of The Hobbit and last year’s acclaimed BBC Two series The Last Kingdom. But who were the Anglo-Saxons, and were they really as enigmatic as has been suggested...

The English being mainly of Anglo-Saxon origin, distinct from their Celtic neighbours in Scotland, Wales and Ireland, has been shown to be nothing but a myth. In fact, the the Welsh and Scots have almost as much Anglo-Saxon DNA in them as the English, but all three are mainly Celtic. For the...

A 201-million-year-old dinosaur that fell out of a cliff face at Penarth in South Wales in 2014 has been formally named as Dracoraptor hanigani. Loosely translated, the Dracoraptor part means "dragon thief"; hanigani honours Rob and Nick Hanigan - the two fossil-hunting brothers who found...

This month marks 75 years since the Lancaster bomber first roared aloft. So why do our leaders still refuse to celebrate the giant that smashed the Nazi war machine? The flying death trap that helped save civilisation: It's 75 years since the Lancaster bomber first roared aloft. So why do...

If any prison or police station in Britain today used these methods of tackling prisoners, it'd not be long before the yuman rites lawyers, BBC, Guardianistas and Labour Party step in accusing the authorities of not repsecting the prisoners' yuman rites. From a Scold's Bridle for loose-tongued...

The wreck of a World War One German U-boat has been found off the coast of Norfolk. Scans by windfarm developers showed the submarine lying about 55 miles (90km) east of Caister-on-Sea. U-31 went missing in January 1915, struck a mine in the North Sea and sank. All 35 men on board died. Its...

A Jurassic "sea monster" found in Cambridgeshire could prove to be a new species of plesiosaur, scientists said. Oxford archaeologists discovered the 165 million-year-old reptile bones at Must Farm quarry near Whittlesey. Carl Harrison and his team dug up more than 600 pieces of bone as well...

We can only wonder at their sense of timing. Just as our referendum on leaving the EU gets under way, Eurocrats have issued a blackmail threat against the UK. They say either we join their scheme for sharing out migrants and refugees, or we can forget about returning illegal entrants to...