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A 700-year-old parchment letter which gives a “tantalising glimpse” into the life of William Wallace is to go on public display. The letter, one of only two surviving documents with a personal connection to...

Stephen Hawking's final scientific paper has been released, and it deals with one of the central topics in the physicist's 56-year-long career. The work was completed in the days before Hawking's death in...

Thousands of people have turned out to watch a re-enactment of one of the most famous battles in history. More than 600 soldiers clashed in a Battle of Hastings remake in East Sussex on...

Richard Madden, star of hit BBC drama Bodyguard, is set to be made the new James Bond... We've been expecting...

A contemporary artist has (almost) succeeded in bringing Queen Elizabeth I back to life. In a new exhibit...

This is Britain's second narrowest street - at just 28 inches wide it's so narrow that pedestrians have to walk down it in single file...

Whilst wanting, respectively, Wales and Scotland to leave the UK but remain in the EU, Plaid Cymru and the SNP are not true Welsh and Scottish nationalist parties.... Why Plaid Cymru and the SNP love...

Brexit is ‘serious madness’ that will sound the death knell for the UK’s booming music industry, Sir Bob Geldof and dozens of pop celebrities warn in an open letter to prime minister Theresa May...

One of Britain's largest Roman villa complexes dating to around the third or fourth century AD has been unearthed next to a bus station in Cambridge...

A British church team's football has been found washed up 250 miles away on a German beach... Norfolk church...

It’s hard to work out what is most galling about Hillary’s latest act of haughty, self-righteous condemnation of people and politicians who think differently to her...

A burger van has launched a full English breakfast served inside an enormous loaf of bread. Rolling Rolls in Bridgend, south Wales, serves up a butty containing sausage, bacon, eggs, hash browns and...

Our country is a stable land with a belief in democracy. We have not been invaded for 1,000 years. We have...

The real Wolf Hall made famous by Hilary Mantel's books on Henry VIII has finally been unearthed nearly three centuries after it was razed to the ground. The magnificent 16th...

To Mr Macron, as to so many of his compatriots, Brexit poses a huge existential challenge. It would be humiliating for France, for so long our greatest rival, if we made a success of our independence outside the EU while they ploughed joylessly on towards ever-closer union with the titans of...

Captain James Cook's 18th century ship the Endeavour was a hotbed of drunken behaviour and hidden homosexuality, experts have revealed. The claims come after maritime archaeologists say they believe they...

Alan Titchmarsh drove a flock of sheep across London Bridge as part of a centuries-old tradition. The TV gardener was joined by more than 600 Freemen of the City of London as they exercised their "right"...

A woman in the far east of Russia has told the BBC she recognises one of the key suspects in the Salisbury attack as a military intelligence officer. The woman identified him...

Theresa May plans to evoke the spirit of the famous 1951 Festival of Britain with a £120 million nationwide celebration after Brexit...

Benny the beluga is spending his fifth day in the Thames but appears to be healthy and swimming normally, the Port of London Authority (PLA) has said...