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Historian Helen Castor explores how Matilda, daughter of Henry I, came tantalisingly close to becoming England’s first female ‘king’. Matilda, daughter of Henry I: A queen in a king’s world This article was first published in March 2012 Helen Castor Tuesday 1st...

The Romans may have marched across Britain and left many impressive monuments, but few of their footprints remain. Now, a Roman tile bearing a clear imprint of a naked foot has been discovered close to Hadrian’s Wall. It’s the first human footprint to have been found at the fortified...

Admiral Nelson's flagship, the HMS Victory, is to be repainted a delicate lemon colour as part of restoration works on the 250-year-old vessel. Workers from the National Museum of the Royal Navy said the new shade would be more authentic than the current orange hue after scraping off 72...

Here are recent examples of how mindlessly the left-wing BBC falls into its party line, on three familiar topics. The BBC is in a fog of groupthink and can’t see how biased it is...

As thousands of migrants, including many dubious-looking Mohammedans, continue to flood Calais in order to get to Britain, Richard Littlejohn thinks it's time for another game of ASYLUM! LITTLEJOHN: Iraqi terrorists, Afghan dissidents, bogus Bosnians and Rwandan mass murderers. Border...

With the FIFA Women’s World Cup in full swing in Canada, Dr Ariel Hessayon from Goldsmiths, University of London, reflects on women’s surprisingly long involvement with football... From Mary, Queen of Scots to the FIFA Women’s World Cup: a brief history of women’s football...

The Queen has sent her "sincere condolences" to the families of those killed in the Tunisian beach massacre. The monarch said she and the Duke of Edinburgh were "shocked" by Friday's gun attack and she also offered their "deepest sympathy" to the injured. Officials fear the UK death toll...

It is the final resting place of more than 80,000 people murdered by the Nazis and, today, the Queen visited the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to pay tribute to those who lost their lives there. Belsen, which occupies a stretch of Lower Saxony countryside, began life as a...

Thousands of groggy revellers awoke from their first night of partying to a magnificent sunrise over Glastonbury Festival this morning, with the music finally set to begin today. With 175,000 people expected to walk through the Worthy Farm gates over the weekend, tens of thousands of...

One of the earliest known pieces of metalwork in Britain, found just a few miles from Stonehenge, has gone on display to the public for the first time. The gold sun-disc, which was forged around 4,500 years ago at around the same time the main circle of Stonehenge was erected, was...

Defence chiefs will deploy specialist air defence units to the Falklands to test Britain’s capability to protect the islands from an attack by Argentina. The move is part of ongoing ‘contingency’ exercises to ‘prove’ that if required, high readiness units are ready to react. During the...

A female from the first wild beaver colony in England for centuries has given birth to at least two young. New footage shows the kits being helped through the water by their mother. The images taken in Devon by local filmmaker Tom Buckley provide the first evidence of the new arrivals. The...

The Queen paid her respects to the victims of war and dictatorship at Berlin's Neue Wache Memorial today, as her fifth state visit to Germany got underway in earnest. Watched by the Duke of Edinburgh, Her Majesty stood silently in contemplation for several moments before laying a wreath...

It is estimated that more people are now jailed or arrested in Britain for what they think, believe or say than at any time since the 18th century One of the more fashionable labels is now 'transphobia', which is used to close down any debate about issues raised by...

Last week, Michelle Obama visted a British school to make a speech on female emancipation to its female pupils. Of course, the school that she visted wasn't full of white girls. Oh no. In these days of "celebrating diversity and multiculturalism" the school that was chosen for the speech...

Is "soccer" on its way to becoming the biggest sport in the US? MARTIN SAMUEL: Seattle's football fever could see the mighty NFL heading for a fall Most see the MLS as where good footballers go to earn a final paycheck Yet if soccer capitalises on the fears around NFL, it could grow rapidly...

She may be 89 but the Queen has a social calender that would exhaust someone half her age. The past week, which saw the monarch carry out eight public appearances in just seven days, was proof enough. When considering the Queen’s jam-packed diary, which sees her carry out an average of five...

Why it's important that the British people vote to leave the EU in the in/out referendum (whenever it is to be held), despite the attempts of the pro-EU British Establishment to rig it..... Britain staying in Europe looks more and more absurd Greece will inevitably leave the...

Tens of thousands of people descended on Stonehenge this morning to mark the year's summer solstice. Some 23,000 attended the neolithic site in Wiltshire, with others - including hippies and pagans - visiting the nearby Avebury stone circle. The figure was down on the estimated 36,000 who...

Britain and Germany were once great allies on the battlefield - as this week's 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo showed. But relations between the neighbours obviously deteriorated in the early 20th century when the Germans suffered humiliating defeats against the British in both...