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Tudors are famous for their beautiful and ornate clothing - and it seems their footwear was ahead of the times, too. Archaeologists have uncovered one of the largest hauls of Tudor shoes during digging work on Crossrail. The shoes are similar to today's modern espadrilles, and were found...

Two male Black Death victims who have been holding hands beneath the streets of London for more than 600 years were unearthed by Crossrail diggers. The pair were found facing each other with their hands entwined in a double grave in a 15th century burial ground for victims of the plague...

Hand over a €60 billion ransom or we won’t even start to discuss a trade deal: that, if Jean-Claude Juncker is to be believed, will be the European Union’s opening gambit ahead of Brexit. Bring it on, I say: the best way to expose a very weak adversary who is pretending to be very...

FAKE NEWS! 300,000 protesters gathered in Parliament Square in London against Donald Trump? Parliament’s ‘governing body’ deciding whether President Trump should have a state visit later this year to the UK? That was what the media has been telling us - but the truth is very different...

Two London sides - little Sutton United of the National League and mighty Arsenal of the Premier League - met in the Last 16 of the FA Cup on Monday night. Whilst the unsurprising result of the match didn't make big headlines - a 2-0 victory for Arsenal - the antics of Sutton United's roly-poly...

10 horrors of the 1665-66 Great Plague of London... 10 Horrors Of The Great Plague Of London Elizabeth Yetter February 15, 2017 Listverse Called the last great plague of London, the Great Plague began in the spring of 1665 and ended roughly a year later. Officially, over 68,000 people...

Expecting the House of Lords to be happy about Brexit is like expecting turkeys to be all excited about Christmas. The British people may have voted to leave the EU in greater numbers than we ever voted for anything, but the House of Lords is almost comically unrepresentative of our nation...

British food manufacturers could be able to sell goods in pounds and ounces once laws are repatriated from Brussels after Brexit, Andrea Leadsom, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary, has said. Mrs Leadsom also suggested that, after the UK leaves the European Union in 2019, food...

Up to 1,800 "vulnerable" day-old chicks have been abandoned in a field in Lincolnshire, sparking an RSPCA investigation. Officers of the animal welfare charity were called after the chicks were left in a field near Crowland on Friday. Insp Justin Stubbs of the RSPCA said: "I have never seen...

Lincoln City became the first Non-League side in 103 years to reach the FA Cup quarter finals with a dramatic last-minute win over Premier League side Burnley at Turf Moor. A breathless final few minutes saw the momentum swing both ways before Sean Raggett rose above the Burnley defence...

Cameron Balbirnie discovers who the Vikings really were... The Vikings at home Cameron Balbirnie looks beyond the common image of the savage, pagan plunderers from Scandinavia to discover who the Viking invaders really were... This article appeared in BBC History Magazine's 'The Story of...

The face of a Pictish man who was "brutally killed" 1,400 years ago has been reconstructed by Dundee University researchers. Archaeologists found the man's skeleton buried in a recess of a cave in the Black Isle, Ross-shire. Forensic anthropologist Dame Sue Black and her team at the Centre...

The brass neck of Tony Blair. The Brexit vote was 'based on imperfect knowledge', says the man who unleashed barbarism across the Middle East on the basis of a student dissertation he printed off the internet. Who marched thousands into unimaginable horror on the basis of myth and spin. That...

Amy Licence, late medieval and early Tudor historian and author of Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville: A True Romance, explores the 19-year relationship between King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, the grandparents of the more famous King Henry VIII... Marrying for love: Edward IV and...

A 400-year-old roast turnip dinner has been unearthed in Russia - a meal believed to have been intended for tsarist soldiers conquering Siberia or political exiles. The find was made in a large clay pot by archaeologists in Tara, a key fortress town founded in 1594. The turnip is heavily...

The discovery of an 'extremely rare' Bronze Age spearhead and sword has been hailed as a find of 'international significance' after they were unearthed at a Scottish building site. The weapons were among a ground-breaking hoard of ancient artefacts discovered in a pit being developed...

I am certainly no cheerleader for Donald Trump, but surely his desire to explore whether some sort of accommodation can be reached with Vladimir Putin's Russia should be welcomed... STEPHEN GLOVER: Hang on a minute. Isn't Trump right? We SHOULD try to be pals with Putin By...

Britain will attempt to offset the cost of Brexit by claiming a significant share of more than €150 billion worth of European Union assets, according to reports. Michel Barnier, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, is understood to be preparing a list of up to €60 billion of liabilities...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,500-year-old tomb containing the remains of a general and a princess from a little-known Chinese dynasty. The princess was the daughter of the Cong Ming King from the Northern Qi Dynasty, which existed for just 27 years and was one of the shortest and...

Some of the earliest photos ever taken have gone on show to celebrate the life of pioneering photographer William Henry Fox Talbot. More than 1,000 photos can be seen on a new website produced by the Bodleian Libraries in the University of Oxford. It aims to bring together the complete...