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A stone marking the site of King Harold's death at the Battle of Hastings has been moved to mark the 950th anniversary of his demise - to a spot about 20ft (6m) away. The marker at Battle Abbey had denoted the "official" location of the last Anglo-Saxon monarch's death since the 1980s...

Richard Littlejohn on why Theresa May should pul Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights; airline lavatories; sexual orgies at army barracks; and DNA profiles of dogs used to fine dog owners for not clearing up their dogs' mess.... Now get us out of the human rights racket, too...

There’s no point trying to rationalise what happened. How can you explain the thought process of a man who purposefully runs over children in strollers? Nor is there any simple answer to stop it happening again. Many, like me, will have a sense of helplessness and foreboding this morning...

Nine Iron Age skeletons uncovered during a dig could "completely change our understanding" of how ancient people lived, archaeologists claim. The well-preserved remains were found by Bournemouth University students during a dig at a pre-Roman town near Winterborne Kingston, Dorset...

This is the extraordinary story of the most ubiquitous and familiar Indian street food of the lot. I say street food, but this is actually a drink, and it is no exaggeration to say it was one of the great engines that drove the globalisation of the world economy. It caused wars and...

She may have been a Remain campaigner during the referendum, albeit reluctantly, but Britain's new Prime Minister Theresa May has just given one mighty Brexit "F*ck you!" to the Europeans and, to a lesser extent, the Americans, by appointing lead Leave campaigner Boris Johnson as Foreign...

A dress made from silk maps given to RAF soldiers in WW2 to help them find a route out of enemy territory has been sold for an undisclosed sum. The dress, made from 'escape and evade' maps, is thought to be from 1945-50. WW2 silk escape map dress sold in Harrogate...

An ancient village dubbed "Britain's Pompeii" was just a few months old when it burnt down, it has emerged. Analysis of wood used to build the settlement suggests it was only lived in for a short time before it was destroyed. Despite this, archaeologists said the site gives an "exquisitely...

Nearly everyone in Britain lives within half an hour’s drive of a battlefield. Here are eight of the best to visit... 8 of Britain’s best battlefields From the Isles of Scilly to the Scottish Highlands, Britain is dotted with hundreds of battlefields. Julian Humphrys of the Battlefields Trust...

Brexit, under Mrs May, will be tougher and more uncompromising than an EU departure led by any of the Brexit original team, particularly an instinctive pro-immigration, pro-globalisation figure like Boris Johnson. So those Brexit backers who feel that the vote has been stolen from them should...

The Queen has opened the new base of the East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) where her grandson works as a helicopter pilot. Joined by the Duke of Edinburgh she visited the charity's new operating base at the Egerton-Smith Centre at Cambridge Airport. The Queen opens Prince William's air...

Hi-tech scans of the South Downs landscape have revealed industrial-scale farming networks that could force archaeologists to rethink their view of Britain before the Romans arrived. Airborne laser scanning (LiDAR) was used to map archaeological remains obscured by woodland after...

The Spectator's Rod Liddle has made a remarkable video in which he interviewed several Remainers to let them have their say... Coffee House Why We Must Have A Second Referendum – Now! Rod Liddle...

Here, David Hamilton, author of Wild Ruins, explores eight of the most fascinating and mysterious ruins in Britain… 8 of Britain’s most mysterious ruins...

It is a 5,000-year-old jigsaw that has been revealed as one of the most pristine Stone Age arrowheads ever found in Britain. Archaeologists have unearthed an inch long barb of flint that matches another larger part found five years earlier just seven feet away. Together they constitute a...

Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire is most famous as the birthplace of Winston Churchill and home of his relatives the Dukes of Marlborough. It now has another claim to fame — new research has discovered its woodland is home to the greatest collection of ancient oak trees in Europe. At...

What a difference a few weeks make. On June 24, just after Britain’s “Brexit” shock, the United Kingdom was apparently facing political chaos, financial crisis, and economic disaster. The prime minister was standing down, the stock market and currency were in freefall, and all the wise...

German industrial giant Siemens has said it will continue to invest in the UK, despite earlier warnings that a vote to leave the EU could affect its future activities in the country. Siemens chief executive Joe Kaeser told a number of media organisations that the company remained fully...

There are around 1,000 ancient stone circles dotted around Britain. Here, BBC History Magazine takes a look at some of them... Britain’s prehistoric stone circles...

Researchers in Israel have made what they say is the first discovery of a Philistine cemetery. The discovery, made in 2013 and finally revealed on Sunday, may yield answers to an enduring mystery surrounding the origins of the Philistines. It comes at the end of a 30-year excavation by the...