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Deborah Swift, author of a new novel Pleasing Mr Pepys, reveals seven things you might not know about the renowned diarist… 7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Samuel Pepys The diary of Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) gives us a fly-on-the-wall account of London...

A rare Roman sarcophagus unearthed in London is going on display for the first time this week. The stone sarcophagus is only the third of its kind to be found in the capital in two decades and will be displayed at a museum alongside the 1,600-year-old remains of the woman who was buried...

In an amazing display of military precision, not to mention equine obedience, nearly 100 members of the Household Cavalry dismount as one from their steeds in a Trooping the Colour rehearsal. Painstaking practice is, of course, needed to ensure that no one puts a foot – or a hoof –...

Every day, the road to Brexit seems to get bumpier. The mixed messages coming from Downing Street certainly don’t help. The latest confusion was caused when, on the one hand, the Government’s Chief Whip, Julian Smith, said he plans to bring the EU (Withdrawal) Bill back to the Commons for a...

A colony of exploding ants, a shrimp that's been named after prog rockers Pink Floyd, four types of miniature night frog and a coconut-cracking giant rat - these are just some of the new species discovered in the past year. While all of these exotic creatures were found many thousands...

Two years on, just as I feared, we're no nearer the exit. Every day seems to bring yet another blatant attempt to derail the process, to keep us subjugated in perpetuity as prisoners of a sclerotic, anti-democratic European superstate. The latest comes from a group bankrolled by the billionaire...

Like in the EU in/out referendum in the UK, the liberals could today be defeated in another referendum, this time in the UK's closest neighbour, the Republic of Ireland. Voters today will vote 'Yes' or 'No' on a decision to replace the eighth amendment with a new article in Ireland's...

THE Loch Ness Monster has been discovered by the British Government which is hiding the truth from the public, according to some quarters of the internet. Conspiracists have speculated and searched for the Loch Ness Monster since it was apparently first sighted by Saint Columba in 565 AD which...

There is something peculiarly forgetful about the British. Every few years — the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011, the Diamond Jubilee and London Olympics in 2012 and, on Saturday, the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex — we receive...

Ten months from now, according to the doom-mongers, we could be back on rations for the first time since the Fifties. With lines of lorries backing up more than 30 miles from the Channel ports, Britain will face gridlock and food shortages. For a hellish mess of endless paperwork and...

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A live German sea mine from World War Two has washed up on the Sussex coast. Bomb disposal teams inspected the device and work is taking place to make it safe while the tides allow access near Bognor Regis, Sussex Police said. The large metal device measures about 6ft and is thought to weigh...

Eight of the most famous royal weddings in British history... The 8 most famous royal weddings in British history BBC History Magazine Carolyn Harris Ahead of the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Saturday, royal historian and author Carolyn Harris...

Royalty remains important to most Britons. Windsor and its Great Park were thronged with hundreds of thousands of cheering, flag-waving people in the sunshine because the idea of “a family on the throne” remains compellingly comprehensible. The soap-operatic story of the marriage – the...

Kentwell Hall is a Tudor mansion with an exterior largely unchanged since 1550. Today it makes the perfect venue to experience the sights, sounds and smells of the 16th Century by recreating the Tudor period... Stepping back in time with the Tudors of Kentwell Hall By...

BBC Monitoring was set up on the eve of World War Two. Its main aim was to listen to, translate and inform the British Government about radio broadcasts from Germany and its allies, as well as from other countries... Death of Hitler: How the world found out from the BBC...

A 4,000-year-old intact clay urn containing a human cremation has been discovered in a Cornish field in a find described as 'nothing short of a miracle'. The set of burnt human remains was discovered near Looe in south east Cornwall and would have been part of a mysterious Bronze Age...

The National Portrait Gallery, off Trafalgar Square, is Britain's home for pictures of our greatest heroes, right? Wrong - if you're Alice Procter, who leads her Uncomfortable Art Tours around London's museums. ... What a funny old age we live in! A Left-wing art historian is running...

Tommy Charlton, the younger brother of 1966 World Cup winners Jack and Bobby has, like his brothers, helped England to lift a trophy - in the first ever over-60s walking football tournament. England beat Italy 3-1 at Brighton & Hove Albion's Amex Stadium in the Just International Cup, with...

A souped-up motorised shed has broken its own land speed record on a Welsh beach as it hit 100mph. The Fastest Shed smashed its previous 80mph record for the fastest shed at a land speed event at Pendine Sands in Carmarthenshire on Saturday. Owner Kevin Nicks said it was "marvellous" to hit...