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One who has a stiff upper lip displays fortitude in the face of adversity, or exercises self-restraint in the expression of emotion. This is a quality usually attributed to the British people, and was particularly demonstrated by Queen Victoria herself. During Victoria's reign from 1837 to...

I've just found this article in a Scottish newspaper about the recent, sickening anti-English attack on a young girl in Scotland, which helps to blow apart the worldwide perception of the Scots as brave heroes and the English as uncaring bad guys. The Scots, it seems, have a problem of...

A few days ago I posted the first part of Charlie Connelly's adaptation - in three parts - of his new book "And Did Those Feet", in which he travels the length and breadth of Britain following in the feet of those of long ago, immersing himself in our islands' bloody, gory and violent past. In...

A nation of Bravehearts? More like a nation of Cowardhearts. A young, 22 year old woman has been left terribly scarred on her face after being beaten up by a fully grown Scottish man. Her "crime"? Being English. Lucy Newman was on a night out with friends in Aberdeen, in north east...

Britain's Ministry of Defence has launched its own range of Action Man-style toys aimed at capturing the imagination of a new generation of children and increasing the profile of the Armed Forces. The dolls are dressed in the exact uniforms worn by Britain's soldiers, sailors and airmen, and...

History records that an Italian scientist named Galileo was the first person to map the moon. However, in 1609 an Englishman called Thomas Harriot actually drew maps of the moon BEFORE Galileo did. So the history of science will have to be re-written to show that Harriot was the first person...

Many people probably won't be surprised, but a new survey has revealed that the Royal Navy has 17,000 drunken sailors. In the new survey, one in five sailors said they drank over 50 units of alcohol a week – more than double the recommended safe limit for men, which is 21 units. Almost half...

In another blow to the Entente Cordiale, the French have blamed their current immigrations problems on......the British. French politician Etienne Pinte says that Britain is to blame for the build-up of immigrants in France because the British keep rejecting many of them. This is despite the...

Feeling glad that he lives in a country that positively oozes history, Charlie Connelly decided to write a travel book with a difference. He journeyed throughout our islands to discover 2000 years of British history, from King Ethelred the Unready to Dick Turpin, from the Peasants' Revolt of...

Did a UFO destroy a wind turbine in Conisholme, Lincolnshire, in eastern England last week? Locals say they saw mysterious balls of light and other mysterious objects in the sky over the wind farm and a loud bang. The next morning, of the the wind turbines was discovered to have one of its...

Prince Harry is at the centre of a race row today after it emerged that he called a fellow Army officer a "Paki." The officer was a member of the Pakistani Army, which uses British training facilities. In Britain, the word "Paki" was originally an abbreviation of the word "Pakistani" but...

The forerunners of Britain's edition of the Yellow Pages are to go online tonight. The city and county directories, dating back to 1677, guided generations of shoppers down our high streets. They provide a fascinating insight into our history of consumers. The genealogy website...

A series of classroom storybooks using digital pictures and action-packed storylines has been created to encourage boys to read. In Britain, which is a reading and book-publishing superpower (more titles are published in Britain each year than any other country) boys lag behind girls at...

A replica of a classic World War II RAF aircraft has been discovered. The Lancaster Bomber model was made from tin cans and matchsticks during World War II by a British pilot as he was held prisoner in Stalag Luft III - the camp featured in the movie "Great Escape". The RAF pilot was shot...

The Queen has given her grandsons, princes William and Harry, their own royal household in St James's Palace. And the logos for their new office bring back memories of their mother Princess Diana, who was killed in a car crash on 31st August 1997, leaving millions of Britons in grief...

Despite being the world's biggest (and oldest) underground railway, with over 250 miles of track ad one billion passenger journeys in 2007, it's amazing that only two babies have ever been born on the London Underground. Julia Kowalska is the first person to give birth on the London Underground...

With another three and a half years still to go until the 2012 London Olympics and with the Beijing Games ending just a few months ago, the new Olympic stadium is already beginning to take shape. The 80,000 seater stadium in Stratford, east London, will be one of the largest in Europe, though...

In 1808, during the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon sent French troops into Spain to occupy that country, and Napoleon put his brother Joseph on the Spanish throne in place of the Spanish royal family. The Spanish people rose up against the French occupiers. In November 1808, exactly 200 years...

A poll has shown that 71% of the British people are opposed to ditching the pound and joining the euro. And, in the second article, Peter Oborne shows why it would be suicide for Britain to join the euro. Majority of voters still oppose Britain joining the euro - 10 years after it was...

The BBC revealed yesterday that Matt Smith is the new Doctor Who. He will be the 11th Doctor Who - and the youngest actor to play him. So Matt is now the fourth most important man in England, after the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the England football manager! At 26...