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An amateur metal detectorist has unearthed one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain. Laurence Egerton, 51, made the discovery as he explored land near Seaton, in Devon - and he was so concerned someone would steal it, he camped out for three nights while archaeologists...

Jackanory was a BBC children's TV series that was originally broadcast between 1965 and 1996 that was designed to stimulate an interest in reading. The show's format, which varied little over the decades, involved an actor reading from children's novels or folk tales, usually while seated in...

Liverpool progressed to the fourth round of the Capital One Cup at Anfield last night - but only after winning the joint-longest penalty shootout in English football history against Middlesbrough. After the match ended 2-2 after extra time, with young English player Jordan Rossiter, who has...

TV presenter and University of Manchester physicist Brian Cox says he supports the idea that many universes can exist at the same time. The idea may sound far-fetched but the "many worlds" concept is the subject of serious debate among physicists. It is a particular interpretation of quantum...

Sixty years ago exactly, a Roman God was uncovered at a London building site. The excavations for the Temple of Mithras moved around but are now going back to the original site. Tom de Castella asks: How do you reconstruct a Roman temple? Temple of Mithras: How do you put London's Roman shrine...

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, has attended mass in Malta to mark the tiny island country's 50 years of independence from Britain. Leading national figures were also at the mass at St John's Co-Cathedral in the capital Valletta. It is believed to be the first time that the prince, who...

It's funny how, now that the Scottish independence referendum is over, focus has now suddenly shifted from the pampered Scots to the long-ignored English and how to give more powers to them. England, apart from London, which has its own devolved assemly headed by the mayor, is the only part of...

England, which hosted the 1966 World Cup and Euro 96, is to co-host Euro 2020 after UEFA announced that Wembley Stadium will host the tournament's semi-finals and final. Like the World Cup, the European Championships is usually hosted by one nation, with France hosting the next one in 2016...

Recent dry weather conditions have revealed a number of prehistoric and Roman sites across Wales. The discoveries include one prehistoric defended enclosure in Pembrokeshire and another one in Gower. Toby Driver from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales said...

Analysis of Richard III's remains has suggested that the king was surrounded by soldiers and hacked to death after losing his helmet in battle. Medical scanners were used to establish that the king suffered 11 injuries from enemy soldiers at Bosworth Field in 1485. The 32-year-old died after...

It is thought that children as young as ten could have made the greatest treasures of the Bronze Age found near Stonehenge. The ornate jewellery and ceremonial daggers, which were found 200 years ago, are so intricate they could only have been made by children. The artefacts were crafted...

Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum have raised enough money to keep a rare Iron Age mirror in the county. The mirror, dating from the 1st Century BC, was found near Didcot, Oxfordshire and had been at risk of being exported to an overseas buyer. Grants and donations from...

Divers exploring an underwater shipwreck have discovered parts of sailors' shoes, which could give clues about life in the 17th Century. The soles and insoles were recovered from HMS London, a Royal Navy warship which sank off the Essex coast in 1665. Evidence of cabins and hand-made glass...

David Cameron has vowed that Jihadi John and his fellow ISIS terrorists will be brought to justice after video emerged last night showing the Briton beheading his fellow countryman David Haines. Mr Haines, 44, an aid worker from Fife in Scotland who had been living in Croatia with his Croatian...

Dan Snow is a historian who has presented many history documentaries on the BBC and other broadcasters and has a regular history slot on BBC One's The One Show. He is also the youngest son of BBC TV journalist Peter Snow; the first cousin, once removed, of Channel 4 news reporter Jon Snow; the...

Whilst the despicable SNP are trying to wrench Scotland from the greatest political union in the history of the world, a great Unionist has, rather ironically, today passed away. The former Protestant preacher and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP, a party which campaigns for...

Everything you know about the legend of Robin Hood may be wrong, after experts have claimed the outlaw was in fact a Yorkshireman. Refuting centuries-old reports that the villain lived in Sherwood Forest in Nottingham, a curator from a Doncaster museum states evidence suggests otherwise. She...

Michael Palin is to narrate the new series of children's TV show The Clangers. The Monty Python member, 71, who is also famous for his popular TV travel documentaries and who was president of the Royal Georgraphical Society betwen 2009 and 2012, is to give his famous voice to the show which...

A fur pelt found in an ancient burial chamber on Dartmoor in Devon suggests brown bears once roamed the area. The pelt was found in a Bronze Age granite cist - a grave - in a peat bog on White Horse Hill in 2011 and experts have confirmed that it is from a brown bear. The bear pelt was...

Britain has the birth of another royal baby to look forward to. The Duchess of Cambridge is pregnant again, Kensington Palace announced this morning. Kate, 32, whose son, Prince George is just a year old, is expecting her second baby with husband Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, next year...