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Yesterday, a bunch of anti-democracy morons turned out in London campaigning to overturn the largest democratic vote in British history...

According to its official line, the so-called "People’s Vote" campaign is neither for nor against Brexit - it merely wants the electorate to “have a say” on the final deal...

In 1819, a troop of sabre-wielding cavalrymen charged into a huge workers' rights protest in Manchester. The carnage that followed is the subject of a new film starring Maxine Peake. But who was the man who ordered the Peterloo Massacre? Peterloo: The man who ordered a massacre...

A Roman clay pot thought to be at least 1,800 years old has been discovered broken into two perfectly fitting halves on a muddy beach. The top half of the jigsaw vessel was initially found just...

History tells us that whenever Europe tries to act in unison, it screws up... Will Brussels EVER learn from 2,000 years of hubris and folly? SIMON JENKINS reveals how megalomaniacs have tried and failed to subjugate Europe's sovereign nations throughout its history...

How unfortunate that the person who once wrote a book called Stupid White Men now sounds an awful lot like a stupid white man. Yes, it’s Michael Moore, the dishevelled American filmmaker, who wasn’t in Britain for five minutes before he was making the most basic of factual errors. ‘You...

Most people today know of the Tudor politician Thomas Cromwell through Hilary Mantel’s inspired, prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies. Or through the performance of Mark Rylance...

A 700-year-old parchment letter which gives a “tantalising glimpse” into the life of William Wallace is to go on public display. The letter, one of only two surviving documents with a personal connection to...

Stephen Hawking's final scientific paper has been released, and it deals with one of the central topics in the physicist's 56-year-long career. The work was completed in the days before Hawking's death in...

Thousands of people have turned out to watch a re-enactment of one of the most famous battles in history. More than 600 soldiers clashed in a Battle of Hastings remake in East Sussex on...

Richard Madden, star of hit BBC drama Bodyguard, is set to be made the new James Bond... We've been expecting...

A contemporary artist has (almost) succeeded in bringing Queen Elizabeth I back to life. In a new exhibit...

This is Britain's second narrowest street - at just 28 inches wide it's so narrow that pedestrians have to walk down it in single file...

Whilst wanting, respectively, Wales and Scotland to leave the UK but remain in the EU, Plaid Cymru and the SNP are not true Welsh and Scottish nationalist parties.... Why Plaid Cymru and the SNP love...

Brexit is ‘serious madness’ that will sound the death knell for the UK’s booming music industry, Sir Bob Geldof and dozens of pop celebrities warn in an open letter to prime minister Theresa May...

One of Britain's largest Roman villa complexes dating to around the third or fourth century AD has been unearthed next to a bus station in Cambridge...

A British church team's football has been found washed up 250 miles away on a German beach... Norfolk church...

It’s hard to work out what is most galling about Hillary’s latest act of haughty, self-righteous condemnation of people and politicians who think differently to her...

A burger van has launched a full English breakfast served inside an enormous loaf of bread. Rolling Rolls in Bridgend, south Wales, serves up a butty containing sausage, bacon, eggs, hash browns and...

Our country is a stable land with a belief in democracy. We have not been invaded for 1,000 years. We have...