Dozens of parish councils claim to represent the oldest “town” in the UK, but which are the most serious contenders? When ...

West Yorkshire, where the original “Wuthering Heights” was written, offers a window into the forces that are disrupting British politics.

The capital is cited as Britain's most successful mercantile city, but other areas also grew very rich from trade.

Norway topped the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics medal table with 18 golds and 41 total medals, Team USA set a record ...

It is not clear what the basis of some of these claims are. Below is a closer look at the statements Sir Jim made. Comparing data from the World Bank, manufacturing accounted for 15% of GDP in the UK ...

The Milano Cortina Winter Olympics closed in style amid a fanfare of opera, dance and song in the Verona Arena as Norway topped the medal table ...

Britain’s history is intertwined with empire and colonialism. The UK was forged as a nation-state alongside, and partly to ...

Before the convenience of modern technology, there were plenty of menial jobs for even the most simple tasks. Here are 20 of the most obscure.

February 2026 has seen thousands of dead seabirds washing up along the coastlines of the UK, France, Spain and Portugal.

In his poem The Second Coming, WB Yeats depicted a world that was facing apocalyptic crisis. “The falcon cannot hear the ...

If you go back to the days of horse-drawn carts and lance-wielding nobility, French courtesy dictated that slower “traffic” ...