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Historic places to visit in order for you to follow in the footsteps of Mary, Queen of Scots... How to follow...

The EU is not only undemocratic in itself; it also degrades the internal democracy of its constituent nations...

The world's longest aircraft has been retired from service as developers prepare to start work on a new model...

Every day we are bombarded with claims that a No Deal Brexit would spell disaster. But those predicting doom are talking our country into a crisis...

The A46, a roaring dual carriageway used by thousands of drivers every day in the East Midlands, was once the edge of the Roman world, separating civilisation from barbarian. Glimpses of this lost world have been uncovered along its length. Fosse Way: Stories from the road at the edge of...

Britons like to think they have a "special relationship" with the US, based on a common language and cultural, historical and political ties...

The mysterious Bardsey Island has a population of just four. This tiny community is accessible only by boat from a small fishing village in north west Wales...

The rest of the country celebrated Christmas Day on 25th December, but there's one part of the UK that is celebrating it today. Foula - whose name means "bird island" in Old Norse - in Shetland, which...

Unseen watercolours collected by Victoria and Albert in their prized sketchbooks are to be sent on tour around Britain, providing new insight into their marriage on the 200th anniversary of their births...

Fragments of an axe dating back almost 3,000 years are among finds that have been declared treasure. The...

Britain remains the world's second most powerful nation - but could soon be overtaken by China if she doesn't invest more in her military... UK is world's 2nd most powerful nation claims study - and...

Having had its 20th birthday on 1st January, the euro currency still shows why Britain was right not to adopt it, despite what the EUphiles at the time said...

Metal detecting tourists from the US are paying thousands of pounds to join treasure hunting tours in Britain in the search for ancient artefacts...

The widower of an Auschwitz survivor has accused SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford of ‘ignorance’ by comparing EU withdrawal arrangements to the Holocaust. Ezra Golombok, 96, said...

Liberal German writer Jochen Buchsteiner admires the British for having an argument which Germans shirk, the former Australian prime minister John Howard, or American constitutional experts who wonder why a free country like Britain ever submitted its laws to the ultimate arbitrament of...

With his absurd gesture of turning the bust of Oliver Cromwell to face the wall in the Commons, Labour MP Stephen Pound was presumably trying to make a cheap political point about the ill-treatment of Catholic Irishmen in Cromwell’s campaigns. Yet if it had not been for Cromwell – the...

Archaeologists have unearthed the mosaic-like floors of a number of Roman homes next to a theatre complex. The finds were part of an excavation next to the Mercury Theatre in Colchester, Essex...

In medieval times thousands of people flocked to Britain's cathedrals to celebrate saints. The majestic buildings competed for the largest audience. The rivalry between two of Britain's most beautiful cathedrals became ugly, a historian has found - and even led to arson...

A show on Radio 4 on Saturday confirms a disturbing BBC policy of preaching to us about the way we live — from a highly selective, left-wing text...

Nobody knows what might happen with Brexit next week. So all forecasts for 2019 should be taken with a kilo of salt (if the Remainiac survivalists haven’t stockpiled all of the white stuff already). That said, here are three possible outcomes anyway: a best-case scenario, worst-case scenario...