Around 10,000 years ago, humans began to repopulate the British Isles. They started to assign names to the things they ...

Globetrots, a renowned etymology expert, has shed light on the significance of 'ham' in British place names such as ...

Australian history has often been written from a southern perspective. But a history of the tropical North sheds light on ...

Although Gaelic was heard in a short documentary about Eriskay by German filmmaker Werner Kissling in 1935, I Know Where I'm ...

After nine consecutive victories, England have confidence that they can secure a rare victory over New Zealand ...

Campaigners today savaged Labour's proposed education reforms after it emerged the teaching of history is to be overhauled to make it reflect Britain's 'innate diversity'. A wide-ranging report on the ...

It was to be the last general election for a decade, the first fought by the SNP and it marked the start of an era of ...

A British woman killed in a freak snowstorm in Chilean Patagonia has been remembered as "a star" by a friend. Victoria Bond, ...

While the importance of the Anglo Irish Agreement is sometimes overlooked, it was the foundation on which all subsequent ...

Traditional crafts remain a living, vital tradition in Britain – and a crucial part of our present and our future.

The Anglo-Saxon Church to negotiate a way forward in a context which, at one time, would have seemed disastrous.

And last month they made their first international trip as a group, travelling from their homes across the US to a place they call a "holy place" for knitters - Shetland. Jonathan, who lives in ...