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Here, Darren Baker, author of With All For All: The Life of Simon de Montfort, brings you 10 facts about Simon de Montfort, often dubbed the father of English democracy... 10 things you might not know about Simon de Montfort...

In the wake of Brexit, only one thing will determine a second Scottish independence vote: whether Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon really thinks she can win. And, at the moment, she can't be certain she will.... Features Nicola Sturgeon’s gigantic EU bluff Only one...

There are many officials in Whitehall who will tell you the Brexit vote has dealt a mortal blow to Britain’s global standing and that, without EU membership, we will forever be consigned to the fringes of international diplomacy. They will point to the fact that David Cameron will be the...

Thousands of people, including members of the Royal Family, are at a ceremony in France to mark the centenary of the start of the Battle of the Somme. The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry are at the Thiepval Memorial for the...

As the dust settles after the UK vote to leave the EU, lawyers are picking over the landscape and legal opinions are emerging as to how the UK's departure from the European Union might be slowed or even stopped... Can the law stop Brexit? By Clive Coleman Legal...

Ever since Friday’s Glorious Victory, one of the chief recreation activities of we Brexiters of a childish bent has been the Taunting Of The Remnants, mostly online. ‘How are you comforting yourself?’ one Facebook post asked. ‘In the usual way – with the tears of the vanquished,’ I...

Why Stephen Crabb should be the new British Prime Minister.... Why my fellow Brexiteers should want Stephen Crabb as Britain's next Prime Minister Maria Caulfield, Conservative MP for Lewes 29 June 2016 The Telegraph Is it time Stephen Crabb got a promotion? Credit...

What was life like for an ordinary woman in the Tudor period? Tudor women: what was life like? The Tudor dynasty...

Richard Littlejohn with the big stories of the last few days: Brexit (obviously); police being called to a rubber duck race at Bourton-on-the-Water; a man called George Freeman, who nobody has ever heard of, announcing he WON'T be running for Prime Minister; Escape To Victory; and an MP who's...

A "selfie" of engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel as he shivered on a rattling train in the 1830s is to go on show. The self-portrait was drawn as he travelled on an "ice chiller" train on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Brunel built the Great Western Railway between London and the West of...

A town has used a 15th Century law in a bid to reinstate a medieval punishment device. While rotten cabbage-throwing is unlikely, Thame Town Council in Oxfordshire hopes stocks will attract tourists. Councillor David Bretherton said the idea came about when he was reading about "weird laws" in...

‘We can stop this madness through a vote in parliament’, tweeted Labour MP David Lammy. ‘I wouldn’t rule anything out’, former PM Tony Blair told the BBC. ‘We want a second referendum’, said 41,118 people from Vatican City, population 800, in a petition that is now being investigated for fraud…...

The liberals and luvvies, so used to lording it over the "little people" and getting their own way for so long, are mightily angry that the British people have defied them by voting to leave the EU. Ahhh diddums! One of these people is a British "comedian" called John Oliver, who went on an...

Former Mayor of London, Vote Leave campaigner, and possibly soon-to-be Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the EU referendum result: I cannot stress too much that Britain is part of Europe – and always will be Boris Johnson 26 June 2016 British people will still be able...

Don’t panic. The economy will do just fine. In fact, with solid political leadership and sound policy making, it is more likely that growth will surprise on the upside than disappoint on the downside in the coming years. Now that the country has voted to leave the EU, what lies ahead...

A fearless woman has broken tradition to become the first female ever to compete again male jousters at an English castle. Traditionally no females took part in the dangerous tournaments during Medieval times because all elite knights were male. But today 46-year-old Nicky Willis, a leading...

We did it. We really did it, just as I always hoped and suspected we would. If David Cameron had paid more attention to the prophetic words of the writer G. K. Chesterton, he might have seen it coming, too. Chesterton is probably best known as the author of the Father Brown detective stories...

Here is a list of some of the winners (including Liz Hurley, Michael Caine, car registration plates and the Queen) and some of the losers (including Eddie Izzard, Bob Geldof and Benedict Cumberbatch) of the EU referendum.... RICHARD KAY: From Liz Hurley to Eddie Izzard and Sir Michael Caine...

There have been two great democratic moments in post-war British politics. The first was in the 1945 General Election when victory for the Labour Party under Clement Attlee swept away the old British establishment and brought in a new era of social democracy. The second is today. Just...

Furious European leaders scrambled to save the EU project today as Brussels chief Jean Claude Juncker told Britain not to expect an 'amicable divorce'. He and other EU leaders are demanding Britain opens negotiations 'immediately' even though David Cameron appealed for calm and said...