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Archaeology and history enthusiasts are being encouraged to dig deep into the massacre of Glencoe. The slaughter happened in February 1692, when troops billeted with Clan MacDonald of...

So it’s acceptable now to assault electoral candidates? That’s the pretty scary take-home message from the Tommy Robinson ‘milkshaking’ incidents. Journalists and even politicians have been going wild for the bloke in Warrington who threw his milkshake in Robinson’s face yesterday as he...

A new poll contradicts the belief of liberals that the British public are a bunch of racist, "gammon" (itself a racist term) "Little Englanders"...

A toilet made from 18-carat gold will be plumbed in at Blenheim Palace this autumn - and visitors will be free to use it. The toilet, created by Italian contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan, will go on...

The grave of 'Elephant Man' Joseph Merrick has been found nearly 130 years after he died, his biographer has claimed. Merrick’s skeleton has been preserved in the Royal London Hospital since his death but Jo Vigor-Mungovin says she has tracked down where his soft tissue is buried to a cemetery...

The Roman conquest of Britain 2,000 years ago is one of the most important events recorded in history - but exactly where Julius Caesar landed, and the precise route he then took, has remained a mystery...

Every so often, an American colleague comes to visit our curators’ office at Hampton Court Palace, and at some point the conversation will always take exactly the same turn. “I can’t believe it,” says the visitor, who probably works at some Transatlantic museum or historic site. “In...

A man who unearthed a £145,000 Anglo-Saxon pendant has found more treasure dating back about 800 years. Tom Lucking's latest find saw him dig up a brooch dating back to between 1200 and...

Blackadder star Sir Tony Robinson has quit as a member of the Labour Party after 45 years for its anti-Semitism and its stance on Brexit...

The hypocrisy of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his stance over Trump's State Visit... LEO MCKINSTRY Hypocritical Jeremy Corbyn isn’t for the many and certainly NOT for the Jew...

There have been loocal elections for 248 English local councils and all 11 Northern Irish local councils - and it seems as though voters are telling politicians to deliver Brexit...

The carnage in Sri Lanka which left more than 300 dead may have been carried out by ‘Buddhists’, according to the BBC Today presenter Nick Robinson on the morning after those hideous bombings. We all grope slowly towards meaning, don’t we? We look for precedent, we search for clues. I did both...

Oscar-winning actor Rami Malek is to play a villain in the 25th official James Bond film - but the movie still does not have a title. The cast and creative team have been unveiled at a...

That didn't last long, did it? After a brief respite the Stop Brexit circus is back in town, bonkers as ever. MPs are returning to Westminster two weeks older, but none the wiser...

Yep. We're living in weird times... RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Trump protests, cream ads, Anne of Green Gables...

Rod Liddle on the big issues of the week: Trump's impending State Visit to the UK, the Brexit Party, the Sri Lanka bombings, the UAE, ships at a Scottish museum no longer being referred to as "she", Greta Thurnberg, goats in trees, Saudi Arabia and cultural appropriation...

The Beast of Beddau has joined the Maerdy Monster as a new bug species found at old coal mine sites in the UK...

The remains of 3,000-year-old skeletons have been discovered while a water company worked to save a rare chalk stream in Oxfordshire...

The birth of British identity began 5,000 years ago when the country found itself secluded from the continent in a ‘late Neolithic Brexit’ archaeologists believe. A new study suggests that monuments like Stonehenge and Avebury acted like prehistoric focal points, drawing Britons from the far...

ANGRY voters today warn Theresa May she has five weeks to deliver Brexit — or face a giant backlash in the Euro elections. Two-thirds want the PM to get the UK out of the EU by any means to avoid the cost...