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Historians have unveiled a digitally-reconstructed image of the face of Robert the Bruce almost 700 years after his death. The image has been produced using casts from what is believed to be the skull of the famous Scottish king. It is the culmination of a two-year research project by...

Why did King George VI call Elizabeth his pride and Margaret his joy? The Crown: Why did King George VI call Elizabeth his pride and Margaret his joy? THE CROWN reveals King George VI’s adorable nicknames for his daughters Elizabeth and Margaret...

Archaeologists are piecing together the mysterious life and death of an Iron Age man whose jaw bone was discovered in Orkney. Using carbon dating, the researchers suggest that the remains belong to a man who died around AD120. With only two teeth remaining, the man seemed to have led an...

Another piece of Remoan scaremongering falls by the wayside... COFFEE HOUSE Sorry Remoaners. The British peso is on its way back Matthew Lynn 6 December 2016 The Spectator We were about to see parity with the dollar. It was fetching less than a euro at the airport. Spiralling costs were...

Forget the Dad’s Army myth. With powerful leaders, a well-armed Home Guard and some terrifying new weapons, Britain was well prepared to meet a Nazi invasion. Leo McKinstry takes up the story... Britain's fight for survival: Fortress Britain 1940...

THERESA MAY has declared that the Royal Navy will play a key role in forging Britain's future outside the EU. On her first visit to a naval warship since taking over in Downing Street, the Prime Minister said the maritime force was vital for protecting the UK's interests overseas and...

Of all the barbs fired at us Brexiteers, the one that’s irritated me most is ‘Little Englander’. The suggestion is that pro-EU people are broad-minded Europhiles while Brexiteers are petty nationalists who want to dismantle the Chunnel and while away our days drinking tea and slagging...

The UK will have to reach a Brexit deal by October 2018, according to the EU's chief negotiator for Brexit. Michel Barnier told reporters that "time will be short" for negotiations because the proposed deal needed to be ratified as part of the two year process set to be triggered in March...

Swooping across the sky, this red kite was captured playing a breathtaking game of catch in mid-air. The bird of prey picked up a tennis ball with its talons and lifted it into the air in a stunning display at Ivinghoe Beacon on the Chilterns, in Buckinghamshire. Moments later the kite dropped...

The Royal Navy will send its flagship aircraft carrier to the South China Sea after rival claims to the territory escalated. HMS Queen Elizabeth, the largest ever British warship, will sail through the contested zone in 2020. The 72,000 ton vessel, which has cost £3billion, will be armed...

The prime minister will be curled up on the sofa watching traditional British TV on Christmas Day. While being a fan of "Scandi dramas" like Borgen, Theresa May told the Radio Times she'd tune in to Doctor Who and "a nice Agatha Christie". Earlier in the day, she'll have a drink with friends...

Skeletons unearthed at a site said to have been visited by King Arthur are the oldest example of monks ever found in the UK, archaeologists have said. Carbon dating revealed the remains, discovered at medieval Beckery Chapel, near Glastonbury, were from the 5th or early 6th Century AD...

Prince Harry has visited the heartland of Guyana and explored its rainforest on day 14 of his Caribbean tour. The prince was welcomed to the village of Surama in the Iwokrama Forest with a feathered headdress, before he watched a cultural dance around a pole. He met rangers to learn about...

Italians are voting in a referendum which is being closely watched for further signs of anti-establishment sentiment in Europe. The vote, called by centre-left Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, is formally on plans to streamline parliament but is expected to be used by many as a chance to...

From a scribbled warning about the Gunpowder Plot to a typed letter condemning the lack of lifeboats on the Titanic, a new book uses some of the most significant letters ever written to shine a spotlight on history’s key events… In their own words: 6 of history’s most fascinating letters...

A pair of dismembered legs uncovered in an Egyptian tomb are finally giving up their secrets. First found during excavations in the Valley of Queens more than a century ago, the mummified limbs have lain in a museum in Turin ever since. Now, archaeologists analysing the 3,000-year-old...

There can now be no doubt about it. The powerful forces opposing Britain's departure from the European Union are organised, determined, and well on their way to frustrating the clearly-expressed will of the majority of British voters to leave the corrupt, undemocratic and clearly...

Remainers have been celebrating after the pro-EU Liberal Democrats won yesterday's Richmond Park by-election which was triggered after the incumbent Tory MP Zac Goldsmith resigned in protest over the building of a third runway at Heathrow. They have been declaring that the LibDems' victory means...

Skeletons found in Leicester could be the earliest examples of African people living in the famously diverse city. The University of Leicester found 83 skeletons in a Roman graveyard dating back as early as the 2nd Century. Six with possible African ancestry is the first evidence of migrants...

Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs, who played hapless Spanish waiter Manuel in the BBC sitcom, has died aged 86, his family has confirmed. The actor died on 23 November and was buried on Thursday, his wife Melody said in an interview in the Daily Mail. She told the paper that Sachs had been...