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Britain's greatest treasures from the mysterious golden Age of Stonehenge are to go on display for the first time. It will be the largest collection of Early Bronze Age gold ever put on public display. The Wiltshire Museum in Devizes, 15 miles north of Stonehenge, is exhibiting 500...

The 7th Armoured Brigade, aka the Desert Rats (not to be confused with the 7th Armoured Division, which was also known as the Desert Rats, of WWII), are to be the last major British force sent to Afghanistan. The Rats will be responsible for packing away forces' equipment ahead of the final...

Scotland's national museum is recruiting online gamers to help piece together 3,000 fragments of the Hilton of Cadboll Stone. The stone was carved around 800AD in Inverness-shire which was then the heartland of the Picts. The top part of it was rediscovered in 1811, with the lower part, and...

Three children look miserable as they stare into the camera with their younger sibling asleep on a chair next to them. Well, that's what it looks like at first glance. In reality, however, the younger sibling isn't asleep - but dead. This is just one of a remarkable series of photographs...

Belgian scientist Francois Englert and British scientist Peter Higgs have won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting the existence of the Higgs Boson particle, which is named after the British scientist. Englert and Higgs theorised about the existence of the particle in the 1960s to...

Just over half a mile of replica British and German WWI trenches are to be built in the Cambridgeshire countryside as part of commemorations to mark the centenary of the conflict. Complete with their own No Man's Land, the trenches are to be built just of the A14 road. The National Centre...

The BBC have a brilliant new Saturday night fantasy drama for the autumn and winter - Atlantis. This is the third Saturday night fantasy series the BBC has made in recent years, following on from Robin Hood (2006-2009) and Merlin (2008-2012). The first episode of thirteen in this brand new...

Counting is under way in the Irish Republic in referendums to decide the fate of the Seanad Éireann (Irish for Irish Senate), the upper house of the Irish parliament. The current government of the Irish Republic, led by Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny, says that the Seanad costs too much...

Warships, galleons and tall ships from 17 nations sailed into Sydney Harbour today to celebrate the centenary of the Royal Australian Navy. On what was a beautiful spring day in Australia, thousands of spectators gathered along the harbour to welcome the 20-strong international fleet...

The RAF's famous 617 Squadron - known as The Dambusters because of its destruction of German dams during WWII - is preparing for its final tour before disbandment. However, the disbandment is only temporary as it will be re-formed in 2016 to fly the new Lighning II aircraft, of which the RAF...

The tiny, tiny nation of The Gambia - a tiny slither of a country in West Africa, three times smaller than Belgium, about 24 times smaller than the UK and with a population of just 1.7 million - has withdrawn from the Commonwealth. The nation branded the 54-member grouping (now a 53-member...

Workmen were working on a new housing estate in Monmouth, Monmouthshire in South Wales (the county of Monmouthshire was in England until 1974 when Wales annexed it, leading to some English nationalists rightly campaigning to get it back) when they just happened to come across what is probably...

Two weeks ago hiker John Stoneman was driving with his girlfriend through Kinzua State Park in Pennsylvania when they came across two Bigfoot/Bigfoots/Bigfeet. He quickly whipped out his camera and took a few photos of the seven foot tall hairy Hominids. Mr Stoneman, from Bradford, PA...

The Daily Mail and the leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition Ed Miliband are embroiled in a war of words after the newspaper attacked Ed's father Ralph Miliband for his Marxist beliefs. Ralph was a Belgian Jew and Marxist academic who fled Belgium for Britain to escape the...

Around 20 Roman-era skulls have been found by workers working on London's billion pound Crossrail project. The skulls were found beneath Liverpool Street train station where the River Walbrook, a tributary of the Thames, flows. The Walbrook began being covered by buildings in 1440 and it now...

Stonehenge's new £27 million visitor attraction has been unveiled to the world. Scaffolding surrounding the new structure has been removed to reveal a single-storey building which is hidden out of sight of Stonehenge in a natural hollow 1.5 miles away from what is probably the world's most...

The two men accused of murdering soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, south east London, on May 22nd have pleaded not guilty in court. Michael Adebolajo, 28, from Romford, east London, and Michael Adebowale, 22, from Greenwich, south-east London, denied the charges at the Old Bailey. The trial of...

The ashes of former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher, who died on 8th April, were laid to rest yesterday at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, west London, alongside those of her husband, Sir Denis, who passed away in 2003. The Royal Hospital was founded by King Charles II in 1682 as a...

Thirty tourists were today forced to jump off a burning Duck Boat and into the Thames as the boat sank near to the Houses of Parliament and Lambeth Bridge. Flames ripped through the tour vessel in Central London around midday. The passengers - described by a London Fire Brigade spokesman as...

Iron Age fort and Bronze Age burial mounds uncovered in New Forest Thursday 26th September 2013 Submitted by Emma McFarnon Official website of BBC History Magazine The New Forest in Hampshire was created as a royal forest by William I in about 1079 for the royal hunt, mainly of...