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Archaeologists have uncovered a ritual burial of 2,000-year-old human skulls - sparking the theory they could be the remains of Boudicca's rebels - as the London Crossrail excavations continue. The latest discovery of cremated human bones packed neatly into a cooking pot and set off at...

No, not Ming Campbell, who's so old he served as an MP in the Rump Parliament. A 4,000-year-old tree thought to be Britain's oldest living thing (although the Scots will say that the Fortingall Yew, which many believe to be 5,000 years old - although that is disputed - is the oldest living...

It may look like a misshapen disk of metal, but this coin is one of the oldest ever to be found in Britain. The tiny copper coin, which is smaller than a penny, dates from the Iron Age almost 2,300 years ago and suggests there were links between the south west of England and the...

A remote Iron Age fort built by the Picts as a look out post on top of a 20-foot-high sea stack has been uncovered on the coast of Scotland. Archaeologists believe the stronghold, which would have been cut off from the land at high tide, may have been one of a number that lined the east...

Britpoppers Blur release their eighth studio album, "The Magic Whip", tomorrow. It is their first for 12 years. The lads have embarked on somewhat different careers in recent years. One of them is now a criminal lawyer and a Labour Party activist; one is a cheesemonger; one is an opera...

The metropolitain Left-wing elite tried for years to get rid of Clarkson from Top Gear due to the fact that they disagreed with his more Right-wing politics and his non-PC jokes (jokes which, quite frankly, attracted 300 million people around the world to the show every week). So they were...

An "anti-racism" event at Goldsmiths, University of London, has banned white people and men from attending. ‘If you’re a man and/or white PLEASE DON’T COME', a Paki name Bahar Mustafa pleaded (of course, being a white male is not very fashionable and PC these days. The people who successfully...

It's the hallowed turf where the modern day game of rugby was born when one of its pupils picked up a football during a game and ran with it in the early 19th century. Rugby School is known as the spiritual home of the game, with the World Cup trophy named the Webb Ellis Cup in honour...

A minute's silence will be held before all Premier and Football League matches in England later to mark the 30th anniversary of the Bradford City fire. Fifty-six fans died and 265 were injured in the blaze at Valley Parade on 11 May 1985 during a match against Lincoln City. The match had...

Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Turkey are marking the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign. The battle was fought between the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire between 25th April 1915 and 9th January 1916. The Queen took part in a two-minute silence before laying a wreath at the...

Freshly-picked asparagus will be driven on a 60-mile journey from Worcestershire to Leicestershire to mark the 750th anniversary of the death of one of the founders of parliamentary democracy, which takes place in August. De Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, helped set up the first English...

No, not George Michael and Elton John, but some real, actual, queens. Thanks to some much-married monarchs, England has had many more queens than kings. Whether a king’s wife or a ruler in her own right, each made a significant contribution to English history. But who were the best? Here...

Next month, Labour leader Edward Miliband will very, very likely become Britain's first Jewish Prime Minister since Benjamin Disraeli. Miliband's mother was a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust and his father was a Belgian Jewish Marxist academic who fled to Britain with his father during...

Richard Littlejohn brings back his stereotypical Yank news reporters Brit Limey and Chad Hanging and imagines how they would report the upcoming UK General Election on American TV news.... So this is how the Brits run an election? Holy cock-a-leekie! RICHARD LITTLEJOHN imagines an American view...

Today is the Queen's 89th birthday, which she is to celebrate privately at home at Windsor Castle. Her Majesty, who has been staying at the castle for the past month, has no official engagements listed. In her honour, the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery will stage a 41-gun royal salute...

The SNP and their foul-mouthed , thuggish supporters took part in a sinister campaign of abuse and intimidation in the run up to last September's Scottish independence referendum, both online and on the streets, but still failed to...... persuade...... the Scottish people to vote for...

From underground Roman streets and molly houses to plague pits and long-shut tube stations, the forgotten landmarks and traditions of our nation’s mighty capital are charted in a new book written by filmmaker Richard Guard... 10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the history of London...

Anna Whitelock reveals how celebrations marking the anniversary of Elizabeth I's accession became critical, not simply for spectacle and festivity, but for security and defence. Elizabeth I: how she used parties in her honour as a weapon against the Catholic threat to her throne...

Another sign of the times..... A Liverpool supporter at Anfield at a recent match was surprised to find a couple of Muslims praying in a stairwell inside the ground during the team's FA Cup Quarter Final match against Blackburn Rovers in March. The extraordinary scene was captured on a mobile...

Funny how little we have heard from British liberals about a rather nasty outbreak of anti-immigrant violence this week. Black South Africans burst on to the streets of Durban and Johannesburg, savagely attacking and threatening black immigrants from other parts of Africa. Whatever this...