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The horror of the Blitz brought raw terror to Britain’s streets 75 years ago. Despite the popular image of plucky East Enders saying ‘We can take it!’, a new book suggests the reality was sometimes very different. Secret history of the Blitz: The Oxford student driven so crazed by terror...

An ancient lakeside fortress older than the Pyramids has been uncovered on a new housing estate - and archaeologists believe it is one of the world's oldest known boat building communities. The wooden fort was built on stilts standing over a long-vanished Ice Age lake 4,900 years ago to...

A pair of peregrine falcons has set up home in an old crow's nest at a football stadium in Milton Keynes. The world's fastest predatory birds have also produced a chick that has just fledged from Stadium mk, the home of the MK Dons. Martin Kincaid, biodiversity officer at The Parks Trust...

An incredible labyrinth of forgotten Second World War tunnels built beneath the White Cliffs of Dover will reopen to the public today for the first time in 40 years. The Fan Bay Deep Shelter was carved out of chalk in just 100 days in the 1940s as part of Dover’s connected gun battery...

The Queen, apparently impatient to get to church, veered onto a grass verge to avoid a family strolling through Windsor Great Park. The monarch took to the wheel of a Jaguar X-type estate as she drove herself down the Long Walk on the Windsor estate on Sunday. But when she found her...

Around 150,000 artefacts spanning over 2,000 years of England's history are now on show to the public at English Heritage's Archaeological Store at Wrest Park in Silsoe, Bedfordshire. From pottery recovered from the moat at London's Jewel Tower to carved stonework recovered from...

Thousands of people are expected to turn out to smell the "stench of rotting flesh" after a rare "corpse flower" finally bloomed. A titan arum flowered on Saturday for the first time in 11 years at Cambridge University Botanic Garden. The bloom lasts just two days days and emits its smell...

The story of the doomed assault by the Light Dragoons during the War in Afghanistan which has inspired two works of art... Marching into the jaws of death: Haunting Mail photo of troops launching doomed Afghan assault that's inspired two works of art Shows infantry and vehicles of Light...

Justin Pollard offers the would-be revolutionaries among you some light-hearted advice on how to lead an uprising – using everyone from Lenin to a bunch of Dutch desperadoes as examples. Plus, he has some handy illustrations of what not to do if you’d far prefer to maintain the status...

The modern nation of Finland, Europe's eighth-largest country, is the heir to many centuries of history: it was a wilderness at the edge of early Europe, a powerful component of the late medieval Swedish empire, and a Grand Duchy of Tsarist Russia. Finnish history is also rich with...

The home of a retired teacher is at the centre of an archaeological dig after the ruins of a 13th Century chapel were found beneath her front garden. Mary Hudd uncovered some strange brickwork beneath the lawn of her home in Wiltshire during the evacuation of some trees last summer...

A newly discovered Iron Age town is shedding light on the religious beliefs of the ancient Celts. Archaeologists have unearthed numerous hybrid animals from a site dubbed Duropolis near Winterborne Kingston in Dorset, which were carefully created by the ancient people over 2,000 years ago...

This Friday just gone marked the 75th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Britain. What still remains the last battle to have been fought in Britain started on 10th July 1940 and would rage until Halloween 1940, causing the deaths of over 40,000 people, mainly civilians. However, it was...

From Norman fortresses to medieval strongholds, England is home to hundreds of castles. With the school summer holidays fast approaching, BBC History Magazine rounds up eight of the best… Britain’s 8 most amazing castles...

A 600-year-old gold ring engraved with St George and the Dragon sheds new light on the saint's medieval followers in Norwich, an expert has told the BBC. The ring, found by a metal detectorist in South Creake, Norfolk, dates from between 1350 and 1430. Dr Jonathan Good, author of The...

According to many children's books, films and TV shows, the Vikings wore horned helmets. Most people when they think of Vikings think of Scandinavian warriors with horned helmets. But, in actual fact, this is nothing more than a myth. The Vikings did NOT wear horned helmets. It was the Celts...

Two politicians from two European countries which are not members of the EU - Switzerland and Iceland - tell the The Telegraph that Britain (a much larger country) would be much be better off out of the EU. The British people are to decide in a referendum whether or not Britain should remain in...

A giant street party for the Queen's 90th birthday will celebrate her support of more than 600 organisations and charities, organisers say. The Patron's Lunch will be attended by 10,000 guests - many from charities supported by the Queen - in London's The Mall, on Sunday 12 June next year...

The fossilised snout of a giant flying reptile unearthed on the Isle of Wight is the first of its kind to be discovered on the island. The Coloborhynchus remains were found by Will Thurbin, from Niton. Experts at Dinosaur Isle Museum and the University of Portsmouth confirmed it was the...

If you were looking for a rich stew of criminality, 14th-century London was the place to find it. Bruce Holsinger walks the mean streets of the medieval capital. Sin City: thievery, prostitution and murder in medieval London This article was first published in...