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Thousands of people are expected to descend on East Sussex to mark the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. Battle Abbey, widely accepted as the site of one of the most famous events in British history, is the focus for a weekend of events. The battle, between William of Normandy...

The siblings who continued the English royal line after the Battle of Hastings, which took place 950 years ago today.... 'England's darling' and Scotland's saint By Trevor Timpson BBC News 14 October 2016...

An "urgent inquiry" is needed after a male gorilla escaped from its enclosure at London Zoo, say conservationists. The western lowland silverback's escape did not endanger the public but it "could have ended very differently", the Born Free Foundation warned. Despite it only getting into...

Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-reigning monarch, has died after 70 years as head of state, the palace says. The 88-year-old king was widely revered but had been in poor health in recent years, making few public appearances. He was seen as a stabilising figure in a...

The Beeb's impartiality during the EU referendum campaign was surprising and admirable. Yet now that Remain lost the referendum, the Beeb is showing its true pro-EU colours... STEPHEN GLOVER: During the referendum, the BBC was laudably impartial. I just knew it was too good to be true! By...

Walking football is a very popular game in the UK - trouble is, no-one can agree how to play it. There are 800 clubs playing a sport invented in 2011 as a low-impact alternative to the 'beautiful game'. But with no standardised rules, except that running is forbidden, disputes have become...

We may not know exactly how England's King Harold II died at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, but die he certainly did, in spite of later rumours that he fled and became a hermit. But what if it had been Duke William's lifeless body stretched out on English soil, not Harold's? In an article for...

An amateur palaeontologist who discovered a 200 million-year-old fossil accidentally smashed it to pieces while he was excavating it. But then, instead of giving up on the fossil, he spent two years painstakingly gluing it back together. The fossil came from a plesiosaur, long-necked marine...

If there were any doubts amongst people before the EU in/out referendum that the British parliament is stuffed full of out-of-touch, arrogant, self-serving twerps who sneer at the democratic will of the British people and will try to overturn it at any opportunity if it suits them then, thanks...

Doctor Who is to be reimagined as Mr Men book characters, with the first four based on Doctors played by William Hartnell, Tom Baker, Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi. The 12 incarnations of the Doctor will be made over in the style of Roger Hargreaves, who created the books. Doctor Who to get Mr...

Novelist Tom McCarthy, of Dulwich College and Oxford (just right for the Guardian), is in a frightful bate because he has been invited to a bash at the Royal Academy to celebrate British art and feels insulted: ‘Like all English-language writers, I’m thoroughly European’. To prove it he...

The 'hate-crime' figures are another part of that growth industry of pressure groups now intent on proving that Britain is the world’s most vile and intolerant country. Not content with claiming that we are a nation of racists and ‘Islamophobes’ they have also decided that we are homophobes...

A former prisoner-of-war who credited the Nagasaki atomic bomb with saving his life has died at the age of 97. Gordon Highlander Alistair Urquhart said the bomb prevented a Japanese plan to massacre Allied PoWs. He was blown off his feet by the Nagasaki bomb in 1945. That and the Hiroshima...

Between 1135 and 1154, a civil war known today as The Anarchy raged in England. It was a struggle for the throne between King Stephen and his cousin Matilda. Professor David Crouch and Charlotte Hodgman visit Wallingford Castle in Oxfordshire, which played a key role in the vicious...

One thing is for certain: our referendum is being talked about the world over and it may well be the first kick-back against the status quo that leads to a popular revolt across the West. While Trump and Clinton may be the most unpopular presidential candidates ever, there has been a...

98% of the people of Hungary - an EU Member State - recently voted against accepting migrants, as demanded by the EU. But even this won't do for the lefty-liberals... We’ll all be Hungary soon if the ‘let ‘em all in’ brigade don’t shut up Ninety-eight and a third just won’t do for the...

Anti-Brexit campaigners have erected six mock customs checkpoints along the UK/Irish Republic border on Saturday in a protest over the possible impact to peace, jobs and the free movement of workers. Northern Ireland, a British province, will be the only land frontier between the United...

What we learned on 24 June is that the establishment elite are not representative of the country at large. And what we have learned since is that they are not about to give up any time soon… The most obvious example is this new distinction, endlessly promulgated by the BBC, between...

Jem Duducu shines a light on some of the wonderfully strange and overlooked moments in history. Here, he rounds up seven of his favourites… Nazi super-cows and defamed Gods: 7 strange and forgotten moments in history...

A Saxon army is marching through the medieval market town of Saffron Walden, travel-weary and weather-beaten after a long fortnight on the road. King Harold II and his warriors are advancing on the Sussex coast and the most famous battle in English history. Weapons jangling astride...