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She may have been a Remain campaigner during the referendum, albeit reluctantly, but Britain's new Prime Minister Theresa May has just given one mighty Brexit "F*ck you!" to the Europeans and, to a lesser extent, the Americans, by appointing lead Leave campaigner Boris Johnson as Foreign...

A dress made from silk maps given to RAF soldiers in WW2 to help them find a route out of enemy territory has been sold for an undisclosed sum. The dress, made from 'escape and evade' maps, is thought to be from 1945-50. WW2 silk escape map dress sold in Harrogate...

An ancient village dubbed "Britain's Pompeii" was just a few months old when it burnt down, it has emerged. Analysis of wood used to build the settlement suggests it was only lived in for a short time before it was destroyed. Despite this, archaeologists said the site gives an "exquisitely...

Nearly everyone in Britain lives within half an hour’s drive of a battlefield. Here are eight of the best to visit... 8 of Britain’s best battlefields From the Isles of Scilly to the Scottish Highlands, Britain is dotted with hundreds of battlefields. Julian Humphrys of the Battlefields Trust...

Brexit, under Mrs May, will be tougher and more uncompromising than an EU departure led by any of the Brexit original team, particularly an instinctive pro-immigration, pro-globalisation figure like Boris Johnson. So those Brexit backers who feel that the vote has been stolen from them should...

The Queen has opened the new base of the East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) where her grandson works as a helicopter pilot. Joined by the Duke of Edinburgh she visited the charity's new operating base at the Egerton-Smith Centre at Cambridge Airport. The Queen opens Prince William's air...

Hi-tech scans of the South Downs landscape have revealed industrial-scale farming networks that could force archaeologists to rethink their view of Britain before the Romans arrived. Airborne laser scanning (LiDAR) was used to map archaeological remains obscured by woodland after...

The Spectator's Rod Liddle has made a remarkable video in which he interviewed several Remainers to let them have their say... Coffee House Why We Must Have A Second Referendum – Now! Rod Liddle...

Here, David Hamilton, author of Wild Ruins, explores eight of the most fascinating and mysterious ruins in Britain… 8 of Britain’s most mysterious ruins...

It is a 5,000-year-old jigsaw that has been revealed as one of the most pristine Stone Age arrowheads ever found in Britain. Archaeologists have unearthed an inch long barb of flint that matches another larger part found five years earlier just seven feet away. Together they constitute a...

Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire is most famous as the birthplace of Winston Churchill and home of his relatives the Dukes of Marlborough. It now has another claim to fame — new research has discovered its woodland is home to the greatest collection of ancient oak trees in Europe. At...

What a difference a few weeks make. On June 24, just after Britain’s “Brexit” shock, the United Kingdom was apparently facing political chaos, financial crisis, and economic disaster. The prime minister was standing down, the stock market and currency were in freefall, and all the wise...

German industrial giant Siemens has said it will continue to invest in the UK, despite earlier warnings that a vote to leave the EU could affect its future activities in the country. Siemens chief executive Joe Kaeser told a number of media organisations that the company remained fully...

There are around 1,000 ancient stone circles dotted around Britain. Here, BBC History Magazine takes a look at some of them... Britain’s prehistoric stone circles...

Researchers in Israel have made what they say is the first discovery of a Philistine cemetery. The discovery, made in 2013 and finally revealed on Sunday, may yield answers to an enduring mystery surrounding the origins of the Philistines. It comes at the end of a 30-year excavation by the...

We made the right choice to leave. We will not suffer economically in the long run unless people who have yet to exhaust their credibility insist on talking the country down, and the gullible believe them. The evidence is already there in the stock market: and even as Europe buckles...

An archaeological dig is under way on what experts say is a rare undisturbed Bronze Age burial mound in Lancashire. Digging got under way this week at the site near Morecambe Bay, which was found by metal detectors, and is being excavated under expert supervision. Archaeologists believe...

The UK's oldest person has died at the age of 113. Gladys Hooper, from the Isle of Wight, who celebrated her birthday on 18 January, passed away at Highfield Nursing Home in Ryde at lunchtime yesterday. The former concert pianist was born in south-east London in 1903, the same year the...

Henry VIII may have had six wives but he also had several mistresses, too.... Henry VIII’s mistresses: who else did the Tudor king sleep with...

A devastating report published yesterday reveals why the decision of the British people to unshackle themselves from the crumbling European Union was so right. In clear and simple language, it portrays the EU as an organisation in profound crisis, with declining growth, a tottering...