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Why a European army would not work, despite what the EU leaders believe... EU Poll Report - Features United we fall: a European army is a really bad idea Who would be in charge? What would they be fighting for – and in what language? This is an idea doomed to failure...

The annual Oxford Cambridge Goat Race returned to London for the ninth time yesterday, with the fundraising event held on the same day of the famous university boat competition. The event saw two goats, one representing Oxford and one representing Cambridge, lock horns as they raced around a...

Recent coastal storms have revealed the signatures of World War Two soldiers etched into Norfolk's sea defences. The names of Pte Wells and Russell were scrawled on concrete anti-tank blocks on Winterton beach, dated 1941. The soldiers are thought to have helped put the original defences in...

Passengers were preparing for the first direct flight between Australia and London on Saturday, passing a major milestone by reducing to 17 hours a trip that once took 12 1/2 days. The 9,000-mile flight from Perth, one of the world’s most isolated cities, marks the first direct passenger...

Continuing a tradition popularised by the Victorians, "mudlarkers" scour the foreshore of the Thames in search of historical treasures. Two thousand years of human history are revealed by the low tide on London’s largest archaeological site and we spoke to the foreshore’s mudlarkers about their...

From Droitwich salt springs to Loch Lomond, a geography professor is using a millennium-old manuscript to hunt the UK's ancient and mythical features. Andrew Evans has found 26 fantastical features documented in an ancient book called Wonders of Britain that was written by a monk...

A bundle of old documents bought at a country sale has sold for £20,000 after being identified as the financial accounts of Richard III. The papers show money the Shakespearean king made in one year from the Duchy estate in Devon and Cornwall - and particularly from 'Poldark' tin...

This Cambridge Analytica thing is starting to sound like a chattering-class conspiracy theory. We’re meant to believe that Donald Trump won the presidential election and Brexit was victorious in the EU referendum because sinister rich and right-wing people trawled social media, harvested our...

An undemocratic Labour MP has been sacked by leader Jeremy Corbyn for not accepting a democratic decision. Owen Smith says he "stood by his principles" in calling for another EU referendum - a move which resulted in his sacking from Labour's shadow cabinet. The former Shadow Northern Ireland...

Stephen Hawking is to become the latest of illustrious Britons to be interred at Westminster Abbey in London. The ashes of Professor Stephen Hawking will be interred next to the grave of Sir Isaac Newton, it has been revealed. The renowned theoretical physicist's final resting place will...

Something extraordinary has happened in British politics over the past week: everyone suddenly wants to stand up for British sovereignty. Even those sections of the political and media class that have spent the past 20 months since the Brexit vote mocking the little people and their apparently...

Restoration of a landmark lion figure on a hillside has been completed using 800 tonnes of unwanted chalk from beneath a local resident's house. The giant 483ft lion near Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire was created in 1933 and is the largest hill figure in England It had been deteriorating after...

Vladimir Putin will lead Russia for another six years, after securing an expected victory in the presidential election. A Russian state exit poll gave him 73.9% of the vote, easily defeating his closest competitor. The main opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, was barred from the race. Russia...

Here, Dixe Wills, author of Tiny Histories: Trivial Events and Trifling Decisions that Changed British History, uncovers six split-second decisions that helped make Britain what it is today… Six trivial decisions that changed British history From a misguided act of chivalry on an Essex field...

This is the chilling moment the 'ghost of Admiral Nelson's wife' was seen wandering around HMS Victory before disappearing through a wall. The spine-tingling footage appears to show the ghostly figure of a woman in a dress and heels walking through the upper chamber of the warship. Tony...

"Boaty McBoatface" has executed its most daring dive yet. The nation's favourite yellow submarine swam under a near-600m thick ice shelf in the Antarctic, returning safely to its launch ship after 48 hours away. It was an important test for the novel autonomous vehicle, which was developed at...

Fascinating footage from more than a hundred years ago, believed to be the first ever game of rugby caught on film, has resurfaced ahead of the final week of the 2018 Six Nations. The video, which is just under a minute in length, shows a 1901 fixture between Yorkshire sides Dewsbury...

Rare letters written in Charles Dickens's own hand may reveal the true inspiration for Wackford Squeers, the cruel headmaster of Dotheboys Hall in Nicholas Nickleby. Scholars have argued over the teacher's inspiration. But this Thursday a revealing letter, stamped with Dickens's seal...

1966 World Cup winner George Cohen believes Russia should be stripped of this year's World Cup and that it should instead be hosted by England. England bid to host the 2018 World Cup and had what many believe to be the best bid, but FIFA decided instead to award the tournament to oil-rich...

A treasure trove of Iron Age artefacts has been found at a site on Scotland's Orkney Islands that was once home to a tall monumental tower-like structure. Archaeologists excavating the area found evidence of a 'great feast' that dates back back around 2,000 years, to the Middle-to-Late...