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You can now take a look through King Richard III's personal prayer book from the comfort of your own home. Researchers have digitised the fascinating text, which includes a note by the English king likely written as a reminder of his birthday. The note, found on the page for October...

Say what you like about Donald Trump’s more outlandish policies, such as walling off the Mexican border or trying to bar entry to the US for nationals travelling from seven Muslim countries. The one area where it is hard to dispute the merits of the president’s approach is in the realm of...

The 11 greatest English - and then British - monarchs since 1066... Top 11 monarchs in British history Andrew...

Intricate jewellery found buried in a Staffordshire field is the earliest example of Iron Age gold ever found in Britain. The collection, made up of four twisted metal neckbands called torcs, and a bracelet, was discovered by two metal detectorists just before Christmas. Experts say...

Hollywood still knows how to make movies. It just awards prizes to the wrong ones... Coffee House And the Oscar goes to…anyone provided they’re not white, heterosexual or male Toby Young...

Theresa May could end EU free movement of people into the UK as early as next month when she triggers Article 50, the start of the process to get Britain out of the EU... Theresa May poised to announce end of free movement for new EU migrants next month 159 Comments The...

The new 12-sided £1 coin enters circulation in Britain in March, replacing the round £1 coin which has been used since 1983. And when the Royal Mint asked for ideas on what should feature on the back of the new coin, the most popular entry was a full English breakfast. However, that idea was...

Historian Ronald Hutton says we will never unlock the secrets of Britain's ancient religions... Prehistoric religion: a riddle we will never solve If you believe that nothing is beyond the wit of modern historical research, think again – we will never unlock the secrets of Britain’s ancient...

A McDonald's with more than a nugget of history is serving up its last Big Macs this weekend. The building that has been home to the burger chain in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, for the last 34 years is thought to be the oldest in the world to house a McDonald's, with parts of it dating back to...

Nigel Farage has posted a picture of himself having dinner with Donald Trump and his family in Washington after being "squeezed in" at the last moment. The former Ukip leader dined at Trump International Hotel with the US president and a number of his close advisors. It comes as Mr...

A tankard awarded to a smuggler and pub landlord for his "brave and noble actions" following a shipwreck has been sold at auction for £8,100... Tankard awarded to Cornish shipwreck hero fetches £8k 25 February 2017...

A new six-part Channel 4 documentary started this week about the history of Britain's current royal dynasty - the Windsors - 100 years after the dynasty was started. Episode 1 of the series revealed how the dynasty got its name... How the House of Windsor was born: Documentary reveals the man...

Claudio Ranieri says his "dream died" when he was sacked as Leicester City manager nine months after winning the Premier League. Ranieri, 65, guided the Foxes to the title despite them being rated 5,000-1 shots at the start of the campaign. However, this season the champions are fourth from...

The riots on Monday night in Rinkeby, a migrant ghetto known locally as ‘Little Mogadishu’, are a major embarrassment for the Swedish government. They came just two days after Donald Trump, the U.S. President, was widely ridiculed for comments he made at a rally in Florida last...

With the entire political establishment massed against them and the bookmakers giving them no hope, the Leave campaign faced what many thought was an impossible battle to take Britain out of the European Union. But election data published yesterday has provided a window into how Vote...

Tudors are famous for their beautiful and ornate clothing - and it seems their footwear was ahead of the times, too. Archaeologists have uncovered one of the largest hauls of Tudor shoes during digging work on Crossrail. The shoes are similar to today's modern espadrilles, and were found...

Two male Black Death victims who have been holding hands beneath the streets of London for more than 600 years were unearthed by Crossrail diggers. The pair were found facing each other with their hands entwined in a double grave in a 15th century burial ground for victims of the plague...

Hand over a €60 billion ransom or we won’t even start to discuss a trade deal: that, if Jean-Claude Juncker is to be believed, will be the European Union’s opening gambit ahead of Brexit. Bring it on, I say: the best way to expose a very weak adversary who is pretending to be very...

FAKE NEWS! 300,000 protesters gathered in Parliament Square in London against Donald Trump? Parliament’s ‘governing body’ deciding whether President Trump should have a state visit later this year to the UK? That was what the media has been telling us - but the truth is very different...

Two London sides - little Sutton United of the National League and mighty Arsenal of the Premier League - met in the Last 16 of the FA Cup on Monday night. Whilst the unsurprising result of the match didn't make big headlines - a 2-0 victory for Arsenal - the antics of Sutton United's roly-poly...