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Racy tiles showing explicit scenes have gone on display in the Museum of London for the first time. The 18th century tiles, which offer a peek into the bedrooms of Georgian London, were discovered after a fire in the Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub in Fleet Street in 1962. But, due to the tiles'...

A family of rabbits are unwitting archaeologists after uncovering what is believed to be a Neolithic complex near Land's End in Cornwall. The burrowing Lagomorpha uncovered arrowheads and flint tools which were found in their freshly dug network of warrens. Although a formal dig of the...

Ian Mortimer, author of Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England, takes us on a shopping trip in a 14th-century English marketplace A time traveller's guide to medieval shopping Tuesday 25th March 2014 BBC History Magazine By Ian Mortimer, historian, writer and nephew of the British...

Britain is gearing up for great TV entertainment when Nick Clegg takes on Nigel Farage in a televised TV debate. The debate, which will be aired on BBC Two and on London LBC Radio on Wednesday 2 April, will see the leader of the left wing, pro-EU Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg, who is also the...

A ceremony to commemorate the Great Escape, the famous breakout of mainly British airmen from German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III on 24-25 March 1944, has taken place in Poland. Survivors, families and UK and Polish officials gathered in Zagan in western Poland, 70 years after the...

The Neolithic Britons buried their dead in specially-built stone long barrows. Now, modern Britons are to do the same. The first long barrow to be built for 5,000 years is taking shape at All Cannings in Wiltshire, a county dotted with ancient structures, such as Stonehenge, Avebury and the...

Today, there's often a perception that Asian children are given a hard time by their parents. But a few hundred years ago northern Europe took a particularly harsh line, sending children away to live and work in someone else's home. Not surprisingly, the children didn't always like it. What...

It's not that often that we hear the Queen giving her opinions on anything. But that's what happened during her visit to Royal Holloway, University of London ten days ago. She said: ‘Poor people and their problems don’t get reported often, and they need all the assistance they can be given.’...

The Royal Navy's newest submarine - a miniature sub which can launch underwater that James Bond would be proud of - has been spotted moored off Gibraltar. The submarine is intended to launch underwater in order to carry Special Boat Service (SBS) commandos to their destinations covertly so...

Nothing wrong this those. I ate a scorpion once.

The earliest example of Roman irrigation in Britain, dating back almost 2,000 years, has been discovered in Cambridge - and it may have been used to produce wine. A network of ditches and ridges was found on the site of a proposed new £1 billion development on farmland at the edge of the town...

CCTV has captured footage of a flickering ghost standing by the bar of a pub in the centre of my hometown. Manager Tony Dooley discovered the spectre after heading downstairs in the early hours of the morning on Valentine's Day and stumbling upon a broken glass lying on the floor. Thinking...

British scientists have successfully revived mosses that have been frozen under the Antarctic ice for 1,500 years. The researchers thawed out the ancient vegetation and were surprised to see new shoots rapidly appear. While bacteria of a similar age have been recovered before, the...

Nelson's flagship HMS Victory, which helped to destroy a Franco-Spanish fleet during the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, may be about to show her true colours following a new discovery. The ship which, despite her age, is still a commissioned Royal Navy warship, the oldest commissioned warship in...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is asking people to choose a name for British astronaut Tim Peake's next mission. Citizens and residents of all the Agency's member nations are eligible to enter the competition. The 20 member nations of ESA are Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark...

Most young lefties shake off their bizarre beliefs as they get older. But one man who that didn't apply to was WWII veteran Tony Benn. His left wing beliefs just kept getting stronger. The pipe-smoking, pizza-loving socialist, friend of Arthur Scargill and leader of the Stop The War...

Twenty British soldiers have been laid to rest with full military honours, 98-and-a-half years after they were killed in battle. The remains of the 20 heroes who perished in the 1915 Battle of Loos between Britain and Germany were found in 2010 during clearance work for a new prison near...

Keeley Hawes is to appear in an episode of the new series of Doctor Who. The actress, who has appeared in popular dramas such as Ashes to Ashes and Spooks and has voiced Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider video games, is to appear as a villain in the new series and, in the modern politically...

There's only been one. And it wasn't a British mission. It was a European one.

The £3 million Anglo-Saxon treasure known as the Staffordshire Hoard has been brought together to allow experts to shed more light on the Dark Ages. Found by a (now rich) man with a £2.50 metal detector in a (now rich) farmer's field near the village of Hammerwich in Staffordshire on 5th July...