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Archaeologists uncovered what they believed to be the only inscribed tomb and matching remains ever found from Roman Britain earlier this year. But now it appears the stone has no direct link with the skeleton buried beneath it. The honey-coloured headstone bears inscriptions saying it...

Britain's EU in/out referendum could end up becoming a "neverendum", a politician has warned. David Cameron is currently touring Europe and meeting European leaders to try and win support for his EU reforms, which he would like to see implemented before the British people decide, before the end...

As far as team photos go, Zenit St Petersburg's will take some beating. The Russian club, managed by former Chelsea and Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas, won their domestic league with two games to spare last weekend. And just how did Villas-Boas and his...

Arsenal have thrashed Aston Villa to win the FA Cup, the world's oldest football tournament, for the second successive year and for a record 12th time. It is the eighth time that a team has retained the famous old trophy. The London giants found it too easy against their Birmingham rivals, who...

In 1923, the then brand new Wembley Stadium hosted its very first FA Cup Final. Over 100,000 fans - some say it could even as been as high as a mind-boggling 300,000 - crammed into the 82,000-capacity stadium to watch my hometown team Bolton Wanderers play West Ham United. Mounted policemen...

736 teams started this season's FA Cup, and now there are only two left. Saturday's FA Cup Final between Arsenal and Aston Villa at Wembley will be watched by half a billion viewers in more than 120 countries. Close to 90,000 fans will be at Wembley for the 134th final of the world's...

Spanish side Sevilla have won the 2014/15 Europa League tournament after beating Ukrainian side Dnipro in last night's final in Warsaw. It was Dnipro's first appearance in a major European final and they achieved the feat despite playing all their "home" games away from their home stadium due...

Lennart Johansson, former president of European football's governing body UEFA, says the decision to award the World Cup to Russia and Qatar must now be reviewed in the light of the latest corruption allegations. Johansson, who lost the 1998 FIFA presidential election to Sepp Blatter...

Archaeologists excavating a church site in Oxford have found skeletons of nuns who died in disgrace after being accused of 'sex-crazed' behaviour. Discovered during planned construction near Oxford United's Kassam Stadium, the burial ground is over what used to be Littlemore Priory, a...

As today, people in medieval London worried about health, crime, money, the weather and relationships. But of far greater consequence for them was the possibility of going to hell. Here, Toni Mount, the author of Everyday Life in Medieval London: From the Anglo-Saxons to...

People have always thronged to centres of civilisation, commerce and culture. But which were the most important in their day? Top 5… history’s greatest cities This article was first published in the May 2015 issue of History Revealed...

Two criminal probes into corruption at football's governing body Fifa are under way, after seven senior officials were arrested in Zurich on US charges. Separately, Swiss prosecutors launched a criminal case into the bids for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, to be held in Russia and Qatar...

Anxious football fans looking to attend this weekend's FA Cup Final have been told to look to the skies after the FA announced plans to blast two tickets to the edge of space. The FA and Sentintospace.com will launch two tickets from the centre circle of Wembley Stadium into the air at...

Experts studying the incredible Staffordshire Hoard have pieced together thousands of fragments to reveal a rare warrior's helmet and a unique sword pommel. Archaeologists working with the hoard - the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon artefacts ever found - said the two examples of 7th...

The BBC's Springwatch is returning for a brand new series tonight. The hugely popular show, which celebrates British spring wildlife, is now a British institution - and it's also celebrating its tenth birthday! The series began in May 2005 with presenters Bill Oddie (a former Goodie) and Kate...

The government has confirmed that citizens from most EU countries will not be eligible to vote in the referendum in which the people will decide whether or not Britain will leave the EU. Eurosceptics have been concerned that the government will allow all EU citizens resident in the UK who are...

Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson has been admitted to hospital with a suspected heart attack. Mr Robinson, 66, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), was taken to the Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, Belfast, on Monday morning after he became ill. He was then...

Liverpool have been hit for six in what turned out to be a disastrous last match for the club for veteran Steven Gerrard on a dramatic final day of the 2014/15 Premier League season. After nearly 17 years playing for his beloved club Gerrard, 34, is about to leave for LA Galaxy - a decision...

In the bad old days of high infant mortality, any royal family needed an heir and several ‘spares’ – north of the border, James V and his daughter, Mary Queen of Scots, are just two of the many British monarchs with elder brothers who died in infancy. William the Conqueror left England...

Sweden has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest, pipping Russia and Italy to victory - with celebrity chef Nigella Lawson dealing the fatal blow to runner-up Russia when she announced the UK was awarding the Scandinavians a maximum 12 points. Heartthrob Mans Zelmerlow, a 28-year-old...