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Bristolians are entitled to live in Dublin thanks to an 846-year-old charter written by King Henry II which has never been revoked. The charter was written during an 1171-72 visit to assert his authority over a troublesome nobleman in Ireland, who the King was concerned would declare...

A rare prehistoric fossil found on a Scottish island could significantly advance scientists' understanding of the area. The 170 million-year-old jawbone from a dog-sized crocodile-like creature is one of a few found anywhere in the world. The small fossil, measuring just over 3.5cm in length...

Whilst most were raising a glass this New Year's Eve, 45 men in a small Northumberland town were raising burning barrels in an age old tradition. The Tar Bar'l fire festival in Allendale got underway just before midnight as the colourful procession lit up the town in the black of...

This is the horrifying moment a horse collapsed in the street during London's spectacular New Year's Day parade. Hundreds of thousands of people had lined the streets to watch the annual event on Monday, featuring 8,000 performers from all over the world - including dancers, acrobats...

People across the UK reported seeing a large greenish light streak across the sky on Sunday evening. The source is likely to be a meteor – space matter disintegrating as it enters the Earth's atmosphere. Large meteor spotted in skies across UK - BBC News

Elizabethans' attempts at piety often got them to meet their maker sooner than they expected... The perils of piety in Tudor England Steven Gunn and Tomasz Gromelski, who are researching thousands of 16th-century coroners’ inquests reports, reveal how Elizabethans’ attempts to get closer to...

Researchers in London have developed scanning techniques that show what is written on the papyrus that mummy cases are made from. These are the decorated boxes into which the wrapped body of the deceased was placed before it was put in a tomb. They are made from scraps of papyrus which were...

The New Year has officially begun, as midnight passed in Samoa, Tonga and Christmas Island/Kiribati, the first places in the world to welcome in 2018. Eastern parts of Australia see in the New Year in just under 15 minutes' time. New Year's Eve celebrations: world welcomes 2018 Helena...

In their hysteria over Britain returning to traditional, blue, non-EU passports, elite Remainers show how much they despise ordinary people... The revealing hysteria over blue passports Brendan O’Neill...

Starving, dehydrated and, in many cases, dying, hundreds of African slaves are crammed on to the deck of a British ship. Taken in the early days of photography, this picture gives a disturbingly contemporary feel to one of history's bleakest chapters. No wonder the National Archives...

2017 has been our best year yet, and 2018 will be even better. I know that’s an unfashionable view. The official line is that we’re all going to hell in a handcart, that Brexit is crashing our economy, that Donald Trump is threatening world peace and that our living standards are stuck. In...

A magnificent manor house which was once home to one of the most powerful men in England is up for sale. The Grade II listed Woodmancote Place, located in the picturesque village of Henfield, West Sussex, boasts ten bedrooms, seven bathrooms, seven reception rooms and 50 acres of land- all...

A giant Bible is returning to Britain after more than 1,300 years to go on display, alongside the oldest surviving will written by a woman, in an exhibition on treasures of the Anglo Saxon world. Codex Amiatinus was made in a monastery in Wearmouth-Jarrow in Northumbria, in the early 8th...

Plans for a United States of Europe by 2025 suffered a damning blow today after a new poll revealed they have little support across the major nations. German politician Martin Schulz - the former President of the European Parliament and domestic rival to Angela Merkel - promoted the plan...

Imagine looking out of your bedroom window and seeing, down below, a Roman temple that was part of Hadrian's Wall... Hadrian's Wall legacy hidden under Newcastle streets BBC News 28 December 2017...

The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and Bee Gees vocalist and guitarist Barry Gibb have been given knighthoods in the New Year Honours. War Horse novelist Michael Morpurgo has also received a knighthood and Helen Sharman, Britain's first astronaut and the first woman to visit the Mir space station...

The second aircraft carrier to be built for the Royal Navy in the record-breaking design of the £3.1 billion HMS Queen Elizabeth has passed a major milestone - it floats. As its sister ship undergoes emergency repairs for an embarrassing leak, HMS Prince of Wales rose up overnight as water was...

The former burial place of Richard III, a medieval monastic site which now lies under a car park in Leicester, has been given protected status. The remains of the 13th century Greyfriars, where the last Plantagenet king was hastily laid to rest after his death in the Battle of Bosworth in 1485...

Universities must protect free speech and "open minds, not close them", Universities Minister Jo Johnson (the brother of Foreign Secretary Boris) has said in a speech in Birmingham. He said "no-platforming", the policy of banning controversial speakers, is stifling debate. From next April, a...

On a chilly Christmas Eve three centuries ago, one of the most devastating storms in the history of Europe smashed into the coastlines around the North Sea, killing over 13,000 people, annihilating thousands of houses and wrecking countless farms. The apocalyptic weather caused enormous floods...