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From the Brexit result and the Battle of Hastings to Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation and Hitler's planned invasion, these are just some of the fascinating maps which tell the history of our islands through the medium of cartography... From the Battle of Hastings to Brexit: New book tells...

A 2,000-year-old underground fridge has been discovered by accident on a Scottish Island. The 20-feet long Iron Age chamber, thought to be used around 350BC, was discovered during construction work for a new house being built in Ness on the Isle of Lewis. Experts believe it could have...

With just over a year to go until Britain leaves the European Union, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar recently told an audience in Strasbourg that British troops in World War II were fighting for "European values." How wrong and insulting that is... I voted Remain. But to say our WWII troops were...

He stood only about 4ft tall, yet what Benjamin Lay lacked in stature he made up for in moral courage and radical thinking. He was a militant vegetarian, a feminist, an abolitionist and opposed to the death penalty - a combination of values that put him centuries ahead of his contemporaries...

British MPs were last week celebrating 100 years since women were given the vote. Amongst those MPs, of course, were many Remainers. Do these Remain MPs not see the hypocrisy in celebrating women being given the vote while, at the same time, trying to overturn the biggest democratic vote in...

An Elizabethan stone bridge which features in the classic Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles has partially collapsed. Wool Bridge in Dorset features in a dramatic scene in Hardy's 1891 book, but part of the wall slumped into the River Frome... One of England's finest Elizabethan...

Centuries-old secrets hidden in the 600-year-old Canterbury Roll are beginning to emerge for the first time. The 16ft document dates to the Wars of the Roses — the bloody civil war between the House of Lancaster and the House of York that ran from 1455 to 1487. For the past few years...

A group of archaeologists claim they have discovered where the designers behind Stonehenge gathered when creating the famous landmark. The team investigated an ancient meeting place found on army land at Larkhill near Stonehenge. When there, they discovered an arrangement of posts that were...

A 500-year-old secret code used in letters between one of Spain's most famous monarchs and a military commander has been cracked. Ferdinand II of Aragon's letters have tantalised historians for centuries. Constructed using more than 200 special characters, they were deciphered by the country's...

Hundreds of thousands of Greeks have taken to the streets of Athens in a protest about the decades-long dispute over the name Macedonia. Many Greeks object to the country of the same name calling itself Macedonia, saying it implies a territorial claim on Greece's northern Macedonia region...

A photographer has taken a once-in-a-lifetime shot of the raw battle between mother nature's harsh elements and one of her most breathtaking creations. Trys Eddy, a local tour guide in Uluru, was enjoying a 'romantic evening' with his girlfriend, Tatianna, late last year when a massive...

New Zealanders have kicked off celebrations for Waitangi Day with a dawn service at 5am in Te Whare Runanga - the carved meeting house - followed by all-day entertainment and traditional Maori demonstrations at three different parts of the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. The national holiday...

Sailors have long been known for speaking their own nautical language that leaves landlubbers baffled. That tradition continued when the Royal Navy's largest ever warship published its daily orders for the public to see on Twitter as the 72,000 ton vessel left Portsmouth. As the £3.1bn HMS...

Exactly five years ago, archaeologists confirmed that a skeleton found beneath a Leicester car park was that of Richard III. It was an extraordinary revelation that captured imaginations across the world. But for some people, whose fates seemed in some way entwined with the last Plantagenet...

A gold and garnet cross, found on the chest of a girl buried 1,300 years ago, is set to go on display at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge. The noble girl was buried between around 650AD and 680AD in a very rare Christian 'bed burial', just 15 of which have been...

A mass grave of 300 bodies uncovered in Derbyshire could be the burial site of the Viking Great Army's war dead, a new study has found. The mass grave was found in Repton in the 1980s and dating techniques at the time suggested it consisted of bones collected over several centuries...

Mrs May said yet again yesterday that Britain, post-Brexit, must regain control of our money, our laws and our borders. She is right. But if we ask ourselves why we do not have control of our laws and borders, our membership of the European Union is only part of the answer. The other...

The German ambassador, Peter Ammon, leaves Britain this month and retires after a distinguished diplomatic career as Berlin’s man in Paris, Washington, and finally London. Before packing his koffer, Herr Ammon issued the traditional plangent lament that every single German envoy to our...

The Spice Girls have confirmed they are planning to work on new projects, after meeting for the first time since 2012. It comes after Victoria Beckham, Geri Horner, Emma Bunton, Melanie Brown and Melanie Chisholm were pictured together at Horner's house in Hertfordshire. "The time now...

The 2018 Rugby Union Six Nations Championship gets underway today. Defending champions England are looking to become the first nation in 135 years to win the title outright for three consecutive years. They have lost only once under coach Eddie Jones - against Ireland in last year's tournament -...