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The Black Death was one of the most destructive epidemics in history, estimated to have claimed the lives of up to 200 million people across Europe between 1346 and 1353. But exactly how the plague decimated individual towns and villages has been relatively poorly understood. A new study...

It is proper English. I'm not speaking Gallifreyan. A pasty is a baked pastry with a hot, savoury filling. You can get traditional Cornish pasties with their unique shape and crimped edge with a filling of meat and vegetables and you get rectangular or square shaped pasties with a whole variety...

You need to start eating more healthily, my lad. Get a few cheese and onion pasties down your neck. You can get two pasties, each of any flavour, for a quid at the Poundbakery.

The Amazon game Burger Shop, where you have to make cheeseburgers and fries and drinks etc for customers as quickly as possible using a special machine which you build from the blueprints that you mysteriously receive in the mail, is quite good.

The Spectator's Rod Liddle is being put on trial by the Labour Party for thought crime - for daring to suggest that any Muslim, anywhere, could be accused of anti-Semitism... Rod Liddle: Labour’s putting me on trial for thought crime Now I have a chance to apologise for daring to...

If you want to know how lost Europe is, how thoroughly it has abandoned freedom of speech, get this: two French music festivals have banned Eagles of Death Metal, the American rock band whose gig at the Bataclan was turned into a bloodbath by Isis last November, after the lead singer said...

Towering above the grassy Salisbury Plain, its eerie rock monoliths are steeped in myth and magical stories, yet despite decades of research the original purpose of Stonehenge remains a mystery. But UK researchers have tried to answer one of the many logistical questions surrounding the...

When ‘Right-thinking’ commenters and the European elite awoke this morning to the prospect that Austria could be the first European country to be led by a populist right leader (since WWII) they were aghast. In the event Nobert Hofer of the Freedom party narrowly lost his bid to become...

There may be aliens on Jupiter's moon Europa, according to the "Wonders of the Solar System" episode "Aliens."

French Ligue 1 football club Bordeaux have released their new third kit for the 2016/17 season. And it's a shocker... Bordeaux release bizarre third kit for 2016/17 season Mark Brus for Metro.co.uk Saturday 21 May 2016...

A bone fragment believed to come from St Thomas Becket is going on display in England for the first time since it was taken to Hungary 800 years ago. The bone is believed to be from the elbow of St Thomas, who was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170 after he fell out with King...

But some Wiltshire crop circles - Wiltshire being the world capital of crop circles - are just plain weird:

In Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery That Transformed England, James Evans explores the first major advances in maritime navigation, and the Tudor masters of cartography. Here, writing for History Extra, he reveals eight things a Tudor crew would have needed to do if they hoped to...

Remains of a medieval building which, according to legend, King Arthur visited, have been uncovered for the first time in almost 50 years. Excavations at Beckery Chapel near Glastonbury aim to accurately date buildings of an early Christian chapel. During an open day on Sunday visitors will be...

There wasn't much global warming going on when his ship hit an iceberg in the freezing North Atlantic.

The Scottish Football Association has said it is "appalled" by scenes of disorder after Hibs' historic victory over Rangers in the Scottish Cup final. Fans spilled on to the pitch after the Edinburgh side beat the Glasgow club 3-2 with a late goal in injury time. Rangers said some of their...

Wiltshire (where else?) 2004

Benedict Cumberbatch and Brit-award-winning singer Paloma Faith are among 282 actors, writers, artists and musicians who have signed a letter to The Telegraph warning that, if Britain were foolish enough to leave the European Union, it would become “an outsider shouting from the wings”. “From...

An underground wireless station set up in 1940 by Winston Churchill to counteract a feared German invasion has been given heritage protection. The secret station was manned by civilian volunteers who would send and receive messages for the Army. It was discovered in 2012 at a house just...

Now this is surely going to persuade a lot of undecideds to vote Leave. President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, that awful man who was once Prime Mininster of pointless, useless Luxembourg, a country slightly smaller than Oxfordshire in land area and slightly smaller than...