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For many, ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ has always symbolised the romantic Scottish rebel, the 'Young Pretender' whose defeat at the bloody Battle of Culloden in 1746 effectively ended the Jacobite Uprising. But a new exhibition at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival seeks to debunk the “shortbread...

A man who was the inspiration for Sir Alec Guinness's character in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai has been commemorated with a blue plaque. Brigadier Sir Philip Toosey was the senior Allied officer in a World War Two camp set up by the Japanese in Thailand to build a railway. Two...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will join Prime Minister Theresa May in Belgium later to mark the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele - one of the bloodiest of World War One. Half a million Allied and German soldiers were killed, wounded or went missing in three months of fighting...

An express train running between two major Swedish cities will be named Trainy McTrainface, after the railway company opened up the name to a public vote Trainy McTrainface: New train in Sweden named as 'revenge for Boaty McBoatface' Updated 20 Jul 2017 ABC News. PHOTO: MTR Express says the...

A rare collection of Anglo-Saxon artefacts, including the wooden coffin of St Cuthbert, has gone on display at Durham Cathedral. Other items on show include his pectoral cross and comb. St Cuthbert's coffin is centrepiece of Durham Cathedral display BBC News 29 July 2017 St Cuthbert's...

Siân Rees relates the extraordinary stories of men who found themselves shipwrecked and stranded a long, long way from home… Castaways: 5 remarkable shipwreck stories from history...

A sunken ship has been discovered after more than 100 years buried under the shifting sands of the Bristol Channel. The Brunswick sank on Christmas Eve 1900 as it approached Bristol, with the loss of seven lives. Images taken by Bristol Port's hydrographic team have revealed the wreck of the...

The oldest complete section of wooden railway in the world has gone on display to the public for the first time following a three-year restoration project. The rare 18th century waggonway, which was used by horse-drawn carts to transport coal without getting stuck in mud, was unearthed...

The leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice party has accused Germany of 'rejecting' its World War II responsibilities. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who has made several controversial remarks about Warsaw's neighbour, went as far as to suggest Berlin should pay reparations. 'We are talking about...

New Pictish remains have been discovered at a fort thought to have been largely destroyed by a 19th-century development. Archaeologists uncovered a longhouse and a 1,100-year-old Anglo Saxon coin in a dig at Burghead Fort near Lossiemouth, Moray. Experts believe the fort was a significant seat...

The 25th James Bond film will be released on 8 November 2019, producers have confirmed. The currently-untitled movie will be written by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who worked on the last six films. James Bond 25: New film announced - but where's Daniel Craig? BBC News 25 July 2017 Craig's...

Game of Thrones is clearly inspired by the jostling of power that has happened in the British Isles for thousands of years—with a few more dragons peppered in. In reality, British history is littered with tales of murder and betrayal that make the Red Wedding look like...well, a normal wedding...

Military historian James Holland shares some lesser-known facts about the evacuation and the fighting that led up to it… 9 things you (probably) didn’t know about Dunkirk In 1940, as British troops retreated through France under fire from an advancing German Army, a massive evacuation was...

Hitler's spies secretly compiled information about British housewives and the UK's 'homes of misery' years before they planned to invade Britain. German Military Intelligence were horrified by the 'catastrophic' condition of cities where their invading forces would set up garrisons. They also...

An elaborate steel works from nearly 200 years ago has been unearthed by archaeologists in Sheffield. The Victorian-era factory was discovered in a part of the city once famous for its steel industry, which at its height employed 150,000 people. Researchers excavating the site discovered...

An ancient Roman sarcophagus has been excavated from a building site in central London. The 1,600-year-old coffin found near Borough Market is thought to contain the remains of a member of the nobility. Ancient Roman sarcophagus found at London building site 18 July 2017 BBC News An...

A timber fishing trap exposed on the Hampshire coast dates back to Saxon times, it has been confirmed. The weir, built as a permanent wooden structure to catch fish as the tide ebbed, was found by chance on the shore of Southampton Water in 2005. Southampton Water fish trap dated to Saxon...

Neolithic markings carved into a stone in Orkney that were missed for years by archaeologists have been discovered by chance. The faintly incised "butterfly-like" motifs were revealed on Tuesday as sunlight lit up the rock at the "right moment, at the right angle". Experts believe the marks...

Think how many years have passed since there has been anything like it: British audiences expected to pack cinemas to see a British movie about one of the great British moments of World War II: Dunkirk. Christopher Nolan’s deafening epic about the evacuation from the northern French...

Passchendaele, Somme, Arras, Cambrai, Verdun, Dardanelles, Ypres and Jutland. They were not only the names of World War One battles, but also the names given to babies, usually in commemoration of a father or relation who fought and died there. It might sound strange to modern ears, but...