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The big day is coming and the children are already getting very, very excited. No, not Christmas. I mean the visit to our country of US President Donald Trump. It’s going to happen, early in the new year. And by children, I mean the hundred thousand or so petulant, intellectually...

A Roman grave containing a lead coffin and more than 250 Roman coins has been discovered in a field. The artefacts - which are believed to date to around 400 AD - were found near Ilminster, Somerset, by a member of the Detecting for Veterans group. There are about 200 similar lead coffins...

While many of us enjoy turkey as part of our annual Christmas dinner, the animals have only been in Britain since 1524, when they were brought over from the Americas. Now, researchers believe they may have evidence of the first turkey dinner, in the form of three turkey bones dating back to...

Thousands of people have gathered at Stonehenge to celebrate the first sunrise after the winter solstice. Pagans and druids dressed in traditional clothing joined families and a choir to mark the end of the longest night of the year. Thick cloud at the prehistoric site in Wiltshire meant the...

The poll result in Catalonia is a disaster for the Spanish government. But voters in Spain’s most restive region have also presented the EU with a full-blown crisis that could threaten its very existence. By ignoring the European Commission’s preference for pro-Madrid candidates and...

Brits will get their iconic dark blue passports back after Brexit, ministers announce today — in a stunning campaign victory for The Sun. The Government has agreed to our demand to scrap the EU's burgundy model, enforced on the nation from 1988. Immigration Minister Brandon Lewis said...

There is Victoria, the sour-faced and dowdy widow; George III who was barking mad; and Henry VIII who, we have learned, was a tyrannical, overweight womaniser. Yet just when you think there is nothing more to discover about these great figures from history, a new documentary series promises to...

Enough! Enough! For months, the so-called liberal elite has been writing articles, having radio and TV discussions, giving sermons (literally) and making speeches in which it has struggled to understand those strange creatures: ordinary people. The elite is bemused by what drives these people...

Geologists have found evidence of a 60 million-year-old meteorite impact on the Isle of Skye. They made the discovery while exploring volcanic rocks on the island, including at a site just south of Broadford. Meteoritic minerals found below layers of lavas, dated to volcanic activity as...

Belgium's telegram service is about to stop. Stop. One hundred and seventy-one years after the first electronic message was transmitted down a line running alongside the railway between Brussels and Antwerp the final dispatch will be sent and received on 29 December. Belgium ends 19th...

Bewildered cops are investigating after a pensioner appeared to spontaneously combust during a quiet Sunday afternoon walk. Horrified passersby desperately tried to douse the flames after John Nolan, 70, mysteriously caught fire near Tottenham Hotspur's White Hart Lane stadium in North...

A weapon used by Neolithic people could kill with one blow, according to a new study which used forensic detection methods to recreate violence from the period. Experts created a replica of a 5,500-year-old wooden club to inflict damage to a synthetic human skull. They found the...

The face of a 17th century Scottish prisoner of war who died after being captured by Cromwell’s troops has been revealed using the latest digital technology. The soldier was among 3,000 marched south in 1650 following the short but bloody Battle of Dunbar to the then-abandoned Durham...

A 4,000-year-old grave has been found near Loch Ness, which archaeologists increasingly believe was a 'special site' for Bronze Age burials. The grave has been found in the village of Drumnadrochit in the same area a stone-lined grave was found two years ago. Archaeologists believe the...

Are we really divided almost equally into two hostile camps, the 52 per cent and the 48 per cent? I doubt it. The referendum and its agitation created that impression, but diehard Remainers are a small minority, however influential. Before the referendum raised our collective blood...

More than 4,000 bearded men have applied to have their facial fuzz stroked by stressed-out Christmas shoppers. Mo Bro's Grooming Co in Leicester advertised for hirsute gentlemen to staff its "beard stroking station" in return for £30 an hour. It hopes the soothing service will "de-stress"...

A loving family gathered around the festive table with a succulent turkey at its centre accompanied by flaming puddings, crackling firesides and an obligatory blanket of glistening snow outside. For many of us – in the imagination if not perhaps in the drizzlier reality of frayed tempers...

Stonehenge was built to cast phallic-shaped shadows during midsummer and was part of a fertility cult, a new study claims. Professor Terance Meade said Stonehege's ancient builders created a 'play without words' in which one stone in particular cast a growing phallic-shaped shadow. The shadow...

Singer Chris Rea is said to be in a stable condition in hospital after collapsing during a performance. Fans posted on Twitter that they saw the 66-year-old "fall backwards" mid-song at the New Theatre Oxford. Rea, who is known for his hits "Driving Home for Christmas" and "Road to Hell", is...

The chance discovery of a mysterious wealthy lady in poor farmland soil is about to rewrite the history of Anglo-Saxon England. The find by Tom Lucking, a student, of the remains bedecked with an exquisite gold pendant and diplomatic coins has led to a reassessment of the powerbases of the...