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Sweden has topped a poll as the best ‒ or “goodest” ‒ country when it comes to serving the interests of its people while avoiding damaging impacts to other nations and the environment. The country has outranked 162 others to take pole position in the Good Country Index, a league table...

This mysterious footage captures the series of loud explosions and flashes of bright light that were reported across South East England last night. The strange noises were heard in Essex and parts of East London and many concerned locals took to social media to look for answers. One...

Period dramas are becoming increasingly raunchy – from the entirely fictional Poldark to the likes of The Tudors, which is based on real events. Last week, the BBC premiered its lavish enterprise with Canal Plus, Versailles. The show lurched between scenes that seemed stranger than fiction...

No sex please, it’s Saturday, or Wednesday, or maybe it’s Lent or Advent. In Tudor England, the Church imposed sexual abstinence several days a week, as well as feast days and fast days. Even for royalty that meant, ‘Not tonight, Henry!’ Of course, it was impossible to enforce these rules...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of England hosting, and winning, the 1966 World Cup. Previously unseen photographs and film footage are the focus of a new exhibition that documents the time West Germany's 1966 World Cup squad were based in a small market town in the Derbyshire Dales...

Photographs of loved-ones taken after they died may seem morbid to modern sensibilities. But in Victorian England, they became a way of commemorating the dead and blunting the sharpness of grief. In images that are both unsettling and strangely poignant, families pose with the dead...

The Daily Mail's Quentin Letts says this EU in/out referendum debate has all been about economics and borders. But it should be about saving the identity of the country he loves.... Battle for the very soul of Britain: The debate has all been about economics and borders. But for the Mail's...

A cockerel named Balthazar, the unofficial French football mascot for nearly 20 years, has been banned from matches at the forthcoming Euro-16 championships in France. The bird's owner has been sent a letter from UEFA warning him not to bring the bird for security reasons. France Euro-16...

An archaeological dig has revealed evidence of a huge Roman fort in Lancaster, Lancashire. The findings during the first two weeks of excavation include a Roman wall, two Roman roads, a drain and a well. The evidence is causing a great deal of excitement, with volunteers travelling from...

Amid the tumult over Brexit, an annual ritual is being played out which demolishes the notion that Angela Merkel’s Germany is a benign power working for the greater good of its partners in the European Union and the eurozone. Berlin is demanding its pound of flesh from the government of Greece...

Prime Minister and Remain campaigner David Cameron took part in this EU referendum's first big TV debate last night as he was grilled live on Sky News by Sky News Political Editor Faisal Islam and a studio audience. Islam was praised by many on social media after the hour-long grilling for the...

A pottery fragment bearing Christian symbols from Roman Britain has been found among a number of forgotten fragments originally unearthed in the town of Brentford, west London. The piece, while unexceptional in its construction, has been described as a 'tantalising find' because it sheds light...

These ghostly pictures show monks returning to the derelict ruins of an abbey 500 years after it was pulled down by Henry VIII. The men can be seen walking around the grounds of Rievaulx Abbey, near Helmsley in North Yorkshire, which was once one of the richest and most spiritually significant...

The British press declared it a disastrous defeat, and the public despaired. But, argues Nick Hewitt, the battle of Jutland, fought in the North Sea on 31st May and 1st June 1916, ensured that Germany would never prevail in the First World War... Jutland: the battle that won the First...

Oh dear. Over the weekend, the Guardian ran an editorial on the EU referendum entitled ‘this campaign must show more respect for both facts and voters’. However, the left-wing rag didn't practise what it preached... The Guardian fails to practise what it preaches in the EU debate...

Roman tablets discovered during an excavation in London include the oldest hand-written document ever found in Britain, archaeologists have revealed. The Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) said it had deciphered a document, from 8 January AD 57, found at the dig at Bloomberg's new...

The latest EU referendum poll indicates that voters have swung considerably towards backing Brexit. 52 per cent of people surveyed said they were planning on voting for Britain to leave the European Union, compared to 48 per cent who are voting in... Coffee House Majority of...

The centenary of the biggest naval engagement of World War One is being marked by commemorative events. A service at St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney will pay tribute to the 8,648 sailors who died during the Battle of Jutland. A service of remembrance will also take place on board HMS Duncan at...

Hundreds of skeletons found under a Cambridge University college could help researchers map the effect of the Black Death on a medieval town's population. More than 400 complete skeletons were discovered during work on St John's College between 2010 to 2012. The remains, dating from the 13th...

More resources are needed to stop migrants trying to reach the UK on makeshift boats, or lives will be lost, an ex-border force inspector has said. A group of 20 people - including 18 Albanian migrants and two children - were rescued from an inflatable boat off the coast of Kent on...