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You want to go to markets in China. By the way, scorpions don't really taste of anything. I ate one a few years ago. And when I was akid I used to eats ants (which taste bitter), worms and other creepy-crawlies.

Ahead of his new six-part series which starts on BBC2 on Thursday, The Story of China, in which he looks at the stories, people and landscapes that have helped create China's distinctive character and genius over four thousand years, historian Michael Wood reveals the fascinating gems he...

Monks have discovered a recipe book that dates back to 1793 stashed away in their archives, which contains some unusual recipes for pigs' ears and even one of the first chicken curries. The handwritten pages were compiled by generations of cooks in the kitchen of Begbrook House in...

British law-makers have concluded their own time is best served considering a proposal to ban a man who may end up being the next President of the United States.... Why I’m so embarrassed today for Britain. The same parliament that hasn’t banned a single UK citizen from returning after...

A Royal Navy ship has ventured further south than any in 80 years, as sailors used a fisheries inspection mission to pay homage to Captain Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton. Ice Patrol Ship HMS Protector paid the first official visit to the East Antarctic and became the first Navy vessel to...

National park rangers have found a rare form of ice covering dozens of pieces of dead wood in woodland near Callander. The "hair ice" is a highly unusual type of frost that needs a very particular set of conditions to form. Suzanne Humphris, a ranger team leader for the Loch Lomond and the...

It sounds like the stuff of nightmares – giant earthworms that, if left alone, keep growing and growing to the size of a baby snake. But this is no bad dream – scientists working on the Isle of Rum, off the coast of Scotland, have found the biggest specimens ever seen in the UK, more than...

As a new Survation poll shows that 53% of Britons say they would vote to leave the EU as opposed to 47% who say they would vote to stay in, the Out campaign must fight the scaremongers because Britain will not "fall to its knees" if it leaves the EU, according to the head of the group that kept...

A set of tedious roadworks on a major trunk road is not the first place you would expect to find a Roman treasure trove. But that is exactly what workers on a £380 million upgrade to a 12 mile stretch of the A1 between Leeming Bar and Barton in Yorkshire have discovered. Archaeologists...

Britain will celebrate the Queen's 90th birthday this summer with Pimm’s and PG Tips at the biggest street party the country has ever seen. The Patron’s Lunch is the highlight of a weekend of events paying tribute to the monarch’s life and achievements. She is said to be ‘really excited’...

Hundreds of years before the invention of radio or television, how did the Tudors occupy themselves of an evening, or during long winter nights? Melita Thomas, the editor of Tudor Times, investigates… Chess, gambling and cards: Tudor games and indoor pastimes...

English actor Alan Rickman has died from cancer aged 69. BREAKING NEWS: Actor Alan Rickman, 69, has died from cancer, his family has confirmed By Hugo Gye for MailOnline 14 January 2016 Daily Mail Hollywood actor Alan Rickman has died at the age of 69...

Sometimes we take for granted the wealth of history the UK has to offer. Being oblivious to what’s around us can mean missing out on the ruinous and elaborate, yet beautiful, castles hidden in plain sight on our doorstep. 16 extraordinary UK castles you need to visit Tiffany Daniels Tuesday...

BREAKING NEWS: Three dead and up to TWENTY missing after avalanche hit party of school children on French Alps ski-run Three people have been killed, including two pupils, after an avalanche struck a skiing resort in the French Alps, leaving three seriously injured and up to 20 others...

Wiltshire’s world-famous stones have been attracting sightseers for thousands of years. Here, Mike Pitts tells the tourists’ story... Stonehenge: a prehistoric tourist trap Wiltshire’s world-famous stones have been attracting sightseers for thousands of years. Here, Mike Pitts tells the...

A collection of board games spanning two centuries has gone on show. Almost 1,500 games dating from 1800 to 2000 have been donated to Oxford's Bodleian Libraries by collector and historian Richard Ballam. A selection of them are featuring in a display in the Weston Library. The exhibition -...

Millions of people whose identities and beliefs are unknown have been let into our continent. Many who have been here for a few years continue to present challenges which are by no means minimal. There seems to be a belief that so long as we have got Katie Hopkins, Donald Trump or Tommy...

Former Time Team star Dr Francis Pryor and BBC History Magazine's Charlotte Hodgman visit Flag Fen in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, a Bronze Age site that offers a unique insight into life in the Fens 3,500 years ago. History Explorer: Life in the Bronze Age...

The Arabic gang-rape 'Taharrush' phenomenon which sees women surrounded by groups of men in crowds and sexually assaulted... and, thanks to its leaders letting in countless thousands of lovely Muslims, it has now spread into Europe..... The Arabic gang-rape 'Taharrush' phenomenon which sees...

The 'Peterborough Pompeii' has been discovered in an extraordinary archaeological find in Cambridgeshire. It has been buried away and has been unearthed at the edge of Must Farm Quarry in Whittlesey. The dig, run by Cambridge University's Cambridge Archaeological Unit, reveals how people...