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Ancient textiles found near Cambridge reveal Bronze Age Britons used an Egyptian thread-making technique to weave plant fibres long before they picked up spinning. The 3,800-year-old fabrics were made by splicing – a process by which fibres from nettle, lime trees or other plants were...

Colin Steer is a gold-digger with a difference: he’s spent years clearing out a medieval well hoping to ‘find a pot of gold’ at the bottom of it. But the retiree is not searching for the precious metal in a mine – he’s delving deep into an old well he unearthed inside his own front...

The British Establishment thinks it can ignore the people's democratic decision and allow Britain to leave the EU in name only without there being any repercussions. But it seems to have forgotten one thing: Ukip... Features Ukip is back thanks to the Chequers backlash...

Established in 1607, Jamestown was the first permanent British colony in America. But it nearly didn't survive. The fact it did is due in large part to Sir George Yeardley, a military man, social reformer - and one of the first English slaveholders in the colonies. Archaeologists now...

Varadkar's Brexitphobia — his weird determination to scupper the UK’s exit from the EU — is draining Ireland of its best qualities. It has made this nation, known for its rebellious spirit, into the pathetic patsy of the Brussels oligarchy. This land of rebel hearts and independent minds...

On the last day of an excavation by soldiers within the military training lands on Salisbury Plain, they found a comrade in arms: the grave of a 6th century Saxon warrior, buried with his spear by his side and his sword in his arms. Soldiers find skeleton of Saxon warrior on Salisbury...

Archaeologists have discovered imprints left by the hands and knees of a Pictish metalsmith worker while excavating an ancient settlement in Orkney. The marks left by the smith's hands and knees, which have been described as 'unique' by experts working at the archaeological site, are...

Sometimes they say the animal is more scared of you than you are of it. And sometimes the wildlife is so disgusting you know you are more scared of it. But when this - a five-inch long specimen that looks like a sausage with a thin tail - was found slithering around the corners of Bex...

A safari park has said it is not a "petting zoo" after a family were left "terrified" when a bear attacked their car. Sophie Mallaney, from Leighton Buzzard, was visiting Woburn Safari Park in Bedfordshire on Monday when a 6ft black bear climbed on the bonnet and began "chewing away" at...

It is the cold case that even DCI Cassie Stuart in Unforgotten would struggle to solve: who murdered the two princes in the Tower? For five centuries historians have speculated on England’s greatest crime mystery with the prime suspect being Richard III, Plantagenet King of England. Now, M’lud...

Seven hundreds years after the Scots, ruled by Robert Bruce, seized Berwick-upon-Tweed from the English, here are eight travel destinations around the world that keep changing hands.... The most conquered places on Earth Even Latvia and Sweden have ruled Tobago CREDIT: GETTY Oliver Smith...

A rare gold and enamel ring created in memory of Lord Byron following his death in 1824 has sold at auction. The ring, which is thought to have come from Byron's Nottinghamshire home of Newstead Abbey, was sold for £9,200 at Tennants sale room in Leyburn. There are thought to be only two other...

We can only conclude that self-styled feminists, and anti-Americans in general, only expect and demand civilised behaviour from white people or mostly white, Western countries... Why liberals bash Trump but ignore dictators...

Within the Bayeux Tapestry are 626 humans, 190 horses, 35 dogs, 37 trees, 32 ships, 33 buildings... and 93 penises... The Bayeux Tapestry with knobs on: what do the tapestry’s 93 penises tell us? The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most famous and...

Never-before-seen photographs showing Winston Churchill boosting the morale of British servicemen in Normandy just weeks after D-Day have now surfaced more than 70 years after they were taken. The unique photographs of the smiling former Prime Minister - whose tenacity earned him the...

The remains of a hot tub big enough to hold four people have been uncovered by archaeologists in Chichester. After the remains of three near-complete Roman buildings were found under Priory Park last year, experts suspected they would find a bath house. A first dig at the park in West Sussex...

Defence chiefs yesterday unveiled the UK’s next generation of fighter jet — which does not need a pilot. The Government is investing £2billion over the next seven years to develop the Tempest. It is due to take over from the Typhoon by 2035... WHAT WOULD BIGGLES SAY? UK unveils futuristic new...

A remote, boggy stretch of land on the north coast of Scotland is set to become the UK's first spaceport. The A'Mhoine Peninsula in Sutherland has been chosen as the most suitable place from which to launch rockets vertically to put satellites in orbit. The UK Space Agency is giving Highlands...

GHere's your chance to name the European rover that will go to Mars in 2020. Currently called ExoMars, the six-wheeled robot needs something a bit more engaging and inspiring for when it lands on the Red Planet. Astronaut Tim Peake is leading the hunt for a great moniker. He wants everyone to...

The youngest Spitfire pilot to fly in the Battle of Britain during World War Two has died, it has been announced. Sqn Ldr Geoffrey Wellum, who was just 18 when he joined the RAF in August 1939, died at his home in Cornwall on Wednesday evening aged 96. He served with 92 Squadron and his...