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The mystique of the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge has long stoked people’s imaginations. Theories as to what the Neolithic monument was used for include everything from a burial site to a place of healing. But a team of Australian researchers believes that the bluestone circle and...

Charles Darwin, the brilliant naturalist whose works on the theory of evolution single-handedly founded modern biology, is one of the greatest scientists who ever lived. Revered by many and despised by some, his massive influence strongly remains in many aspects of our lives. Let’s learn more...

Brunhilde Pomsel says working as secretary to Joseph Goebbels was "just another job", and that those who say they would have stood up to the Nazis in her shoes are probably mistaken. Ms Pomsel is, at 105, one of the few surviving people who regularly interacted with the Nazi inner circle...

Breaking apart from Europe, resentment towards Westminster elites, financial uncertainty - sound familiar? Back in 1972, before the UK had even joined the Common Market, Daphne du Maurier had anticipated it all in her novel Rule Britannia. So how much did she get right? Did Daphne du Maurier...

Britain’s medal haul in Rio is a lesson in the determined, often ruthless pursuit of success, and the rewards it brings. Yet again, the ideas of the Right have been proved to have so much more to offer than those from the Left... British success at the Olympics is not just a national...

A previously unknown Egyptian-style pyramid has been found in a remote area of the Kazakhstan steppe some 3,900 miles northeast of Cairo. The structure is now substantially in ruins but it is believed that it was a lookalike of the famous Pyramid of Djoser in Egypt - the first of the...

In 1536, a London merchant was gunned down with a lethal new weapon in a killing that bore all the hallmarks of a professional ‘hit’. But who pulled the trigger, and why? Derek Wilson investigates... The hunt for the Tudor hitman...

A copper brooch that could be up to 2,000-years-old has been discovered close to a site linked to the legendary King Arthur. The piece of jewellery is thought to date back to the Romano-British period while the country was under Roman rule. Some reports have even suggested it could have...

A few weeks of not abnormally warm summer weather have prompted light-headed journalists to report not only that this could be the “hottest August for years” and “the hottest year on record” but that, thanks to climate change, we can, within 30 years, expect “killer heatwaves” to become “the...

Sports broadcaster Gary Lineker presented the first episode of the new Match of the Day last night in nothing but his underpants. The Leicester City fan pledged last season that if 5000-1 outsiders Leicester City go on win the Premier League he would "do the first MOTD of next season in just...

Female scholars? By the way, they've spelt Einstein wrong.

American author Bill Bryson is so much of an Anglophile that he has spent most of his adult life living in Great Britain. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951, Bryson visited the UK in 1973, fell in love with the place and decided to stay. He fell in love with a nurse at the psychiatric hospital...

Now that Britain has voted to leave, proof that economics matters less than you might think is the sad sight of some Remainers willing us to fail. Every piece of economic data is picked through for signs of impending doom – like a Roman fortune teller dissecting entrails. But if there...

A royal funeral takes place in central Romania on Saturday for a queen who was never crowned and never served and yet still commands full state honours. Anne of Romania will be buried at Curtea de Arges. A day of mourning has been declared in both Romania and Moldova, and flags will fly...

Remainers have received another blow. Since Britain voted to leave the EU, they have been saying that funding in science and farming and deprived areas of the country will be hit because Britain will no longer receive EU subsidies (which is actually British money that the EU gives us back and...

Archaeologists have identified rare human bones as the remains of Britain's last hunter-gatherers on a small island in the Inner Hebrides. There is a surprising absence of human remains from the Late Mesolithic era which came just prior to the arrival of farming in Britain in around...

A 4,500-year-old monument experts thought was "another Stonehenge" is now understood to have not contained any standing stones at all. Archaeologists digging at Durrington Walls - about two miles from Stonehenge - said they now believed the Neolithic site was surrounded by timber posts...

Michael Phelps has broken a 2,000-year-old Olympic record by surpassing the 12 individual titles won by Leonidas of Rhodes. Who was this athlete whose record has taken two millennia to beat, asks Jon Kelly? Who, What, Why: Who was Leonidas of Rhodes? By Who, What Why...