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A 100-year-old block of butter has been found at the Antarctic base of British explorer Captain Scott. The British team came second to that of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen in the race to the South Pole and Scott and his four colleagues also died during the expedition in 1912. One member...

These remarkable photos show British Empire (and American) troops preparing for the First World War, many of whom would later experience the horrors of Passchendaele and the Somme. The images, when photography was still fairly in its infancy, were taken by Christina Broom, who was Britain's...

The Forties are remembered for the War, the Blitz, doodlebugs, Hitler and concentration camps. The Fifties for RockNRoll. The Sixties for the Beatles and flower power. The Seventies, in Britain, for socialism, strikes, power cuts and the Winter of Discontent. The Eighties for Thatcher and the...

With Christmas approaching, most people are usually content with pictures of robins on Christmas cards or robin ornaments on top of the fireplace. But John Hancock has his own real life robin. Mr Hancock's red-breasted friend loves nothing more than standing on the guy's head and eating...

A recent survey showed that the British are more anti-immigration than people in other European countries and those in the US and Canada. But now another survey has shown that British Muslims are the most patriotic in Europe, as well as the most integrated. An average of 78 per cent of UK...

The Prime Minister had to sleep in a pre-fabrigated, corrugated shed at Kandahar Airfield during his pre-Christmas visit to British troops in Afghanistan. The shed, just outside Afghanistan's second-largest city, is nicknamed "Little Heathrow" and is a far cry from Gordon Brown's usual opulent...

Prince William is to become a "Shadow King" to help prepare him for when he actually becomes monarch. Secret papers have revealed that the Queen, 83, will hand over some of her duties and those of her husband Prince Philip, 88, to the 27-year-old William to help ease the elderly monarch's...

If you like cute animals, then this 2010 calendar will be the one for you. These 13 photos (including the calendar's cover) were taken by Richard Austin and show British wildlife in all it's glory and cuteness. One of the animals is a zebra, but a zebra that lives in a wildlife park in...

Surveys show that the British are more against immigrants coming into their country than people in the rest of Europe and those in the United States and Canada. In the surveys, conducted in the US, Canada, Italy, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain and Britain, a higher proportion of the...

Her Majesty's Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, also known officially as the Coldstream Guards, is the regular British Army's oldest regiment in continuous active service, founded in 1650. Members of the Coldstream Guards are the ones which foreign visitors know and love when visiting...

The case of two devout Christians who were accused of insulting a Muslim has been thrown out of court, dealing a blow for free speech. Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang were taken to court after a white Muslim convert accused them of saying that Mohammed was a warlord and that Muslim women were...

When Kate Arkless Gray was using the London Underground whilst returning home at midnight on Saturday, she certainly didn't expect to see a fox. The fearless canine was spotted at Walthamstow Central in East London using the escalators. It was seen walking down the down escalator, which wasn't...

It turns out that at the Climate Change Summit, there will be at least 1200 limousines reserved by those attending. There is such a demand for limos that providers are having to head to Germany and Sweden and drive the cars hundreds of miles back to Denmark for the week. Attendees are also...

Considering that cricket is very much India's national sport - no, make that a religion - then it seems hard to believe that this nation of 1 billion people and the world's most powerful cricketing country has never been ranked Number One in the world. But that injustice has today been put...

The British Army are in Afghanistan, but it's not the first time they have been there. The British were also there in the 19th century. In the 1880s, Britain was at the height of her power. In 1878, Britain invaded Afghanistan during the Second Anglo-Afghan war (the First Anglo-Afghan War...

The Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has written a modern and gritty version of 12 Days of Christmas. The poem mentions the War in Afghanistas, the MPs' expenses scandal, Global Warming, US President Barack Obama, England manager Fabio Capello and BNP leader Nick Griffin. The 12 verse poem...

The white stag appears several times in British history and mythology. King Arthur once tried, and failed, to catch one. Ancient Britons considered them to be messengers from the otherworld, and the appearance of a white stag signalled that it was time for the knights of the kingdom to pursue a...

In 2011, a British team hopes to break the world land speed record - and hitting 1,000mph - in South Africa using a rocket-propelled car known as Bloodhound. Now another British team is hoping hoping to beat the speed record - in a lawnmower. Don Wales, the grandson of Sir Malcolm Campbell...

Once upon a time it was difficult to stop the French and German armies marching into another countries...... illegally. First there was Napoleon in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Despite being so short he would have had to use stepladders to snog a dwarf and the fact he...

There was relief for Fabio Capello today as it was revealed that Fifa HAVE seeded England for the 2010 World Cup. It wasn't made clear until today what system Fifa would use to decide which of the four pots for the World Cup draw each team will be placed in (except South Africa who will...