Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...

Sometimes, ridiculously named songs end up at number one on the top of the charts. Such as the case with these five.

A rare Iron Age horse brooch has been made the subject of a temporary export ban in the hope it will be acquired by a UK ...

Children's television presenter Nigel Clarke celebrates the lives of six extraordinary people and their contribution to British history. In this collection of short videos Nigel Clarke celebrates ...

capping two decades of remarkable Neolithic discoveries By Peter Ross Photographs by Kieran Dodds Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the Louisiana port city in the last ...

What is probably the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2m years ago, has been dug out from deep within Antarctica.

Some things may come as no surprise in theory but cause the heart to sink when they emerge as reality. The surging number of ...

Did you know that the drunk cook of Sir Thomas Roe, the first British ambassador to Mughal court got into a fight with the ...

Members of the spy ring in the 1930s spilled secrets to the Soviet Union from the heart of the U.K. intelligence establishment.

Working at temperatures of -35C for weeks a team of scientists extracted a 1.7 mile-long cylinder to potentially solve The ...

Sutton Hoo, one of England’s most iconic archaeological sites, has once again captured the attention of historians and ...

Carol Decker emerged as one of British pop's most distinctive voices in the 1980s as the lead singer of T'Pau.