Search results

The EU referendum campaign and its aftermath has divided Britain more deeply than at any time in living memory. Our two main political parties have split over the issue, a Prime Minister has quit in ignominy, the entire "expert class" has been discredited, yawning gulfs have opened up...

BBC History Magazine has asked eight historians to share some surprising statistics from their fields of expertise – from the Roman empire to the Second World War… History’s big numbers Think that numbers should be left to accountants? Then think again. The humble statistic can give lovers of...

Archaeologists have discovered the perfectly preserved skeleton of a Roman man who had to be squeezed into a stone coffin after blundering undertakers made it too small for him. The feet of the dead male, found in a quarry in Dorset, had to be bent backwards for his corpse to fit inside...

The archaeological remains of two Elizabethan playhouses, including the theatre in which Shakespeare's Hamlet was first performed, have been protected. The Theatre, in Hackney, north east London, and the Hope, Bankside, central London, were the first and last playhouses of the era built...

The legacy of those who died in the Falklands War is being tarnished by a thaw of relations between Britain and Argentina, some of the islands' natives are claiming. In the biggest breakthrough in years, both countries recently announced that they would work to remove restrictions in the oil...

Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected as Labour leader, comfortably defeating his challenger Owen Smith. He won 61.8% of the vote, a larger margin of victory than last year. He vowed to bring Labour back together, saying "we have much more in common than divides us", insisting the party could win...

Six British battles you should know about if you don't.... Stamford Bridge - and five more British battles you should know more about The Battle of Stamford Bridge was a precursor to the Battle of Hastings Credit: Getty Images Chris Leadbeater, Travel writer 24 September 2016 The...

It's brilliant in Brexit Britain and Project Fear's lies are being exposed... DANIEL HANNAN Tory MEP on why it’s brilliant in Brexit Britain and how ‘Project Fear’s’ lies were exposed Despite everything we’ve been hearing about failing economies, it will be Britain nudging in front of Germany...

Accidental explosions were an ever-present threat in Tudor and Stuart London, as Stephen Porter explains... Accidental explosions: gunpowder in Tudor and Stuart London...

They were two powerful, ancient empires separated by more than 5,000 miles of imposing mountain ranges, barren desert and exposed steppe grasslands. Yet a collection of seemingly unremarkable bones discovered in a Roman cemetery in London has provided new insights into the links between...

Western civilisation does not have an official birthday. Not like Archbishop Ussher’s famous declaration that the creation of the world occurred in 4004 BC, on Saturday the 22nd of October, in the late evening. If the West had a birthday, though, it would probably be the 22nd of...

‘Brexiteer brings to mind buccaneer, pioneer, musketeer,’ says Michael Gove. ‘It lends a sense of panache and romance to the argument.’ For fellow Leave campaigner Daniel Hannan it had connotations of ‘dashing condottieri’. On the other side of the trenches Remain strategist Lord Cooper...

Project Fear lay in tatters last night after a string of major reports showed the British economy is prospering following the Brexit vote. In a damning assessment of the scaremongering by the Remain camp, the Office for National Statistics declared that there had been no post-referendum...

Archaeologists were left stunned when they uncovered a 2,000 year old shoe which has an uncanny resemblance to an Adidas Predator football boot. The small black shoe was discovered at a Roman fort in Northumberland. The distinctive ridges on the shoe's outer shell and curved space for laces...

When Theresa May addressed the United Nations in New York yesterday, she was able to point to a British way of handling the migrant crisis. Rather than reward those with the strength or money to make it to a western country, Britain has ploughed hundreds of millions of pounds into giving food...

WORK has begun on the UK-funded ‘Great Wall of Calais’ in a bid to keep out migrants trying to cross the border. Builders today started work on the 13ft concrete wall around the Jungle migrant camp in France. It will stretch for one kilometre along the main motorway to the port in northern...

Archaeologists believe they have found a lost Anglo-Saxon royal palace near one of Britain's best known finds. Archaeologists have been studying an area at Rendlesham in Suffolk, about four miles (6km) from the Sutton Hoo burial site. Faye Minter, project co-ordinator, said the remains of a...

The apparent weakness of the UK between the devil and the deep blue sea is, in fact, our greatest strength. The stricken EU needs us far more than we need it. It needs our trade. It needs our soft power and our military power, our security skills and our respected place at the world’s top...