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The Queen has said it is "difficult to escape a very sombre national mood" following tragedies in London and Manchester. The monarch said the UK had "witnessed a succession of terrible tragedies" in recent weeks. Her official birthday message followed protests over the Grenfell Tower fire...

Stephen Porter, author of Everyday Life in Tudor London, takes us on a trip through the streets of Tudor London... Life in Tudor London...

Nobody left in the London tower block which was engulfed in flames in minutes on Tuesday night is still alive, fire crews have said. Rescuers say there are still 'unknown numbers' of people dead inside, but at the moment it is too risky to try to recover them from the upper floors of...

Two hundred years ago the Pentrich Uprising - the last attempt at armed revolution in England - saw government agents and a rigged trial used to demonise radicals, but also helped change how Britain was run. Spies, lies and fake news - England's 'last revolution' By...

Restricted operations at the British Antarctic Survey's Halley station may have to continue for some time to come. The base, which ordinarily stays open year-round, is currently closed because of uncertainty over a developing crack in the ice shelf on which it sits. Scientists are using...

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has joined thousands of protesters in Barcelona to call for independence for the Spanish region of Catalonia. He made a strong plea for voters to take part in an independence referendum scheduled for 1 October. "We will vote, even if the Spanish state...

The UK's snap general election of 8th June 2017 will be talked about in decades and centuries to come as the election in which Prime Minister May called to try and massively increase her Commons majority but instead ended up losing it completely, resulting in a Hung Parliament and a Tory...

England won their biggest international title since 1966 by beating Venezuela 1-0 in the Under-20 World Cup final. It was England's first appearance in the final of a global tournament since their World Cup victory 51 years ago. Everton forward Dominic Calvert-Lewin's first-half goal was...

Scientists researching one of the world's first dinosaur finds have discovered the existence of five teeth they did not realise it had. The Megalosaurus was found in Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, and was the first dinosaur to be named in 1824. Researchers at the University of Warwick have...

A gloriously sunny summer’s day and a 2lb bearskin hat don’t make the best of bedfellows – as Prince William discovered yesterday. The Duke of Cambridge was pictured apparently wilting in the heat as he rode out of Buckingham Palace to take part in The Colonel’s Review. The ceremony is...

Former Top Gear host Richard Hammond has been flown to hospital after a crash while filming in Switzerland. The 47-year-old was on a practice run for a race in an electric car for Amazon Prime show The Grand Tour. Mr Hammond "climbed out of the car himself before the vehicle burst into...

Whilst they had a bad night in much of the rest of the country, the Tories did well in Scotland in the election - which is amazing considering that, until recently, Tories were about as popular in Scotland as saveloys at a kibbutz. Ruth Davidson, the gay leader of the Scottish Conservatives...

Archaeologists have discovered what could be the world's oldest cat paw print. The imprint of four feline toes was found on a tile which dates back almost 2,000 years. It is believed the marks were caused when the tile was left out to dry by a Roman potter and a curious cat stepped on it. The...

This is the most pro-Brexit House of Commons ever elected. More than 90 per cent of MPs have just been returned for parties that are promising to leave the EU, namely the Conservatives, Labour and the Democratic Unionist Party. That fact is worth remembering as you listen to the excited...

Nine things you probably didn't know about the Houses of Parliament – from England’s 'first parliament' to the hot topic of MPs' pay and expenses… 9 things you didn’t know about the history of parliament Dr Paul Seaward and Dr Emma Peplow from the History of Parliament Trust reveal nine...

The process of handing out more than 5,000 medals to British Second World War veterans who helped liberate France is nearly completed. On the 70th Anniversary of D-Day, 6 June 2014, President Hollande of France announced that all British soldiers involved were eligible for the Legion d'Honneur...

It was a battle that set a river on fire, caused panic across London, and left England nursing the wounds of one of its worst ever military defeats. Yet not many people today have heard of the Battle of Medway. Why? Battle of Medway: The English defeat that's largely forgotten By Tanya Gupta...

Voting in the UK general election is under way at more than 40,000 polling stations across the country. Polls opened at 07:00 BST on Thursday, with counting starting once voting ends at 22:00 BST. A total of 650 Westminster MPs will be elected, with about 46.9 million people registered to...

High-status Bronze Age Danes wore intricate wool clothes that were made hundreds if not thousands of miles away, to show how well-travelled and wealthy they were. The first wide-scale study of wool clothes from the period has revealed how this elite class began to emerge in the 2nd millennium...

A tram paying tribute to the "spirit of Manchester" has begun to run on the city's Metrolink network. ​Tram 3022 has a design inspired by the worker bee, which has become a symbol of solidarity following the Manchester attack on 22 May. Bee tram tribute to Manchester spirit after Arena attack...