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No, not George Michael and Elton John, but some real, actual, queens. Thanks to some much-married monarchs, England has had many more queens than kings. Whether a king’s wife or a ruler in her own right, each made a significant contribution to English history. But who were the best? Here...

Next month, Labour leader Edward Miliband will very, very likely become Britain's first Jewish Prime Minister since Benjamin Disraeli. Miliband's mother was a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust and his father was a Belgian Jewish Marxist academic who fled to Britain with his father during...

Richard Littlejohn brings back his stereotypical Yank news reporters Brit Limey and Chad Hanging and imagines how they would report the upcoming UK General Election on American TV news.... So this is how the Brits run an election? Holy cock-a-leekie! RICHARD LITTLEJOHN imagines an American view...

Today is the Queen's 89th birthday, which she is to celebrate privately at home at Windsor Castle. Her Majesty, who has been staying at the castle for the past month, has no official engagements listed. In her honour, the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery will stage a 41-gun royal salute...

The SNP and their foul-mouthed , thuggish supporters took part in a sinister campaign of abuse and intimidation in the run up to last September's Scottish independence referendum, both online and on the streets, but still failed to...... persuade...... the Scottish people to vote for...

From underground Roman streets and molly houses to plague pits and long-shut tube stations, the forgotten landmarks and traditions of our nation’s mighty capital are charted in a new book written by filmmaker Richard Guard... 10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the history of London...

Anna Whitelock reveals how celebrations marking the anniversary of Elizabeth I's accession became critical, not simply for spectacle and festivity, but for security and defence. Elizabeth I: how she used parties in her honour as a weapon against the Catholic threat to her throne...

Another sign of the times..... A Liverpool supporter at Anfield at a recent match was surprised to find a couple of Muslims praying in a stairwell inside the ground during the team's FA Cup Quarter Final match against Blackburn Rovers in March. The extraordinary scene was captured on a mobile...

Funny how little we have heard from British liberals about a rather nasty outbreak of anti-immigrant violence this week. Black South Africans burst on to the streets of Durban and Johannesburg, savagely attacking and threatening black immigrants from other parts of Africa. Whatever this...

A green-skinned figure in a medieval manuscript may look very familiar to Star Wars fans. The ink illustration appears to show the Jedi knight Yoda on the pages of a religious document. But in fact, the drawing is part of a bizarre representation of the Biblical story of Samson, one expert...

Ukip's war on the arrogant, out-of-touch, left-wing, liberal, metropolitan elite which runs Britain (into the ground) continued during the second leaders' debate of the election campaign last night. Whilst it is well-known that the BBC packs its audiences on its political debate show Question...

In 1741, with the War of Jenkins' Ear raging between Britain and Spain, Royal Navy sixth-rate HMS Wager was wrecked on the south coast of Chile. But the wreck became famous for the subsequent adventures of the survivors who found themselves marooned on a desolate island in the middle of a...

It has long been thought that Stone Age man abandoned their dead with little thought or respect. But the discovery of cremated bone, thought to be the earliest ever identified in Britain, could re-write the history of Mesolithic, or Middle Stone Age, burial practices. The deposit...

UKIP would make working people better off through a "low-tax revolution", leader Nigel Farage has said as he launched his party's election manifesto at a hotel in Thurrock, Essex today with 22 days to go until polling day on 7th May. It would keep workers on the minimum wage out of tax, raise...

Cambridge finally get one over their rivals. Saturday saw Cambridge lose to Oxford in both the men's and women's University Boat Races and even in the annual Goat Race. But, last night on BBC Two, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge beat Magdalen College, Oxford in the Grand Final of...

She might be approaching her 89th birthday (Tuesday next week; she may well end up sharing her birthday with her new great-grandchild) but nothing was going to stop the Queen from enjoying a ride in the spring sunshine on Thursday morning. The monarch, 88, was spotted in her "civvies"...

The Roman period in Britain is commonly said to conclude in AD 410 when the legions were called home, yet the story is a little more complicated than that. We visit ten places associated with the empire's collapse. 10 places associated with the collapse of Roman Britain...

Historian and TV and radio presenter David Starkey, known for his non-PC views and for not following the leftist agenda, has launched an astonishing attack on the 'victim status' of ethnic minorities and disabled people - and says women are only of average intelligence. The television...

The dark blues of Oxford claimed their fourth win in five years over the light blues of Cambridge in a supreme show of strength in the 161st men's boat race along the famous 4.2-mile course on the Thames in London yesterday. President Constantine Louloudis claimed a fourth and final boat race...

Hundreds of tourists had to be evacuated from Warwick Castle after a flaming cannonball set alight a thatched building during a display. Holidaymakers, many with young children enjoying the last day of the Easter break, had gathered to watch the cannonball be fired from the wooden...