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A former prisoner-of-war who credited the Nagasaki atomic bomb with saving his life has died at the age of 97. Gordon Highlander Alistair Urquhart said the bomb prevented a Japanese plan to massacre Allied PoWs. He was blown off his feet by the Nagasaki bomb in 1945. That and the Hiroshima...

Between 1135 and 1154, a civil war known today as The Anarchy raged in England. It was a struggle for the throne between King Stephen and his cousin Matilda. Professor David Crouch and Charlotte Hodgman visit Wallingford Castle in Oxfordshire, which played a key role in the vicious...

One thing is for certain: our referendum is being talked about the world over and it may well be the first kick-back against the status quo that leads to a popular revolt across the West. While Trump and Clinton may be the most unpopular presidential candidates ever, there has been a...

98% of the people of Hungary - an EU Member State - recently voted against accepting migrants, as demanded by the EU. But even this won't do for the lefty-liberals... We’ll all be Hungary soon if the ‘let ‘em all in’ brigade don’t shut up Ninety-eight and a third just won’t do for the...

Anti-Brexit campaigners have erected six mock customs checkpoints along the UK/Irish Republic border on Saturday in a protest over the possible impact to peace, jobs and the free movement of workers. Northern Ireland, a British province, will be the only land frontier between the United...

What we learned on 24 June is that the establishment elite are not representative of the country at large. And what we have learned since is that they are not about to give up any time soon… The most obvious example is this new distinction, endlessly promulgated by the BBC, between...

Jem Duducu shines a light on some of the wonderfully strange and overlooked moments in history. Here, he rounds up seven of his favourites… Nazi super-cows and defamed Gods: 7 strange and forgotten moments in history...

A Saxon army is marching through the medieval market town of Saffron Walden, travel-weary and weather-beaten after a long fortnight on the road. King Harold II and his warriors are advancing on the Sussex coast and the most famous battle in English history. Weapons jangling astride...

Britain will be offered a free trade deal before the rest of the European Union if the Republicans win the US presidential election, Donald Trump's trade adviser has said. Dan DiMicco said Britain was "a friend" of America and was leaving the EU for the right reasons. Both presidential...

This year's Christmas Day episode of Doctor Who will see the Doctor team up with a comic book superhero. The Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi, will work with the superhero to save New York from a deadly alien threat... Doctor Who Christmas show to feature Doctor Mysterio BBC News 7 October...

Taking the dog for a walk seems like a tradition as old as time itself. But now we are one step closer to finding out exactly when the special connection between a man and his dog began. Archaeologists have found evidence of the oldest known ‘walkies’. And not only was it roughly 7,500...

The Rolling Stones have confirmed they will release a new album of blues covers in December. Blue and Lonesome was recorded over just three days in London earlier this year, and features new versions of songs by Howlin' Wolf and Jimmy Reed. Guitarist Eric Clapton also features on the record...

The rise of the Tudor navy and eight places related to it... Where history happened: the Tudor navy Charlotte...

Across parts of Germany, running battles between immigrants and neo-Nazis are becoming so frequent that they no longer lead the news. In France and Belgium, Jewish schools and synagogues require armed guards. In Toulouse, a mosque has been burned to the ground. In Sweden, neo-Nazi thugs...

Horizontal fracking can go ahead, the government has said, in a landmark ruling for the UK shale gas industry. Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has approved plans for fracking at Cuadrilla's Preston New Road site at Little Plumpton in Lancashire. A second site, Roseacre Wood, has not yet...

Theresa May set out her vision for post-Brexit Britain today, pledging a country run for 'ordinary working families' instead of the 'international elite'. Delivering her keynote speech to Tory conference in Birmingham, the Prime Minister insisted the historic result in June was a...

UKIP has been plunged into turmoil after Diane James unexpectedly quit as leader after 18 days in the job. Ms James cited professional and personal reasons for her decision. Ms James, who succeeded Nigel Farage on 16 September, said she did not have enough authority in the party and would not...

British soldiers will never again face a legal witch hunt, Theresa May will pledge as she says that European human rights laws will no longer apply on the battlefield. In a joint announcement with Sir Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, the Prime Minister will say that UK troops will be...

James Lind is remembered as the man who helped to conquer a killer disease. His reported experiment on board a naval ship in 1747 showed that oranges and lemons were a cure for scurvy. But why did the Royal Navy, which celebrates the tercentenary of Lind's birth on 4 October 2016, take...

The Staffordshire city of Stoke-on-Trent, also known as the Potteries, has been a production centre for ceramics for 300 years, but does its creative heritage stretch back to Roman times? Stoke-on-Trent: Did the Romans make pottery there? 3 October 2016 BBC News...