Archaeologists are using Environment Agency laser mapping data to rediscover hundreds of kilometres of ‘lost’ Roman roads.

Storm Imogen will target the United Kingdom with strong winds and rainy spells into Monday with the south of England facing the greatest threat of damaging winds.

Nottingham is an English city with a secret: inhabitants have been digging caves here for 1700 years. More than 500 have been found – and a new project is revealing their secrets.

Scholar, Courtier, Magician: The Lost Library of John Dee opens today at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) in London.

It’s British lore: on escalators, you stand on the right and walk on the left. So why did the London Underground ask grumpy commuters to stand on both sides? And could it help avert a looming congestion crisis? On 4 December last year, the London Underground ingested 4,821,000 passengers and spat them out at their destinations, and in doing so set a new record for a single day. If you paused to contemplate this for a moment, you might think...

Pope Honorius II grants a papal sanction to the military order known as the Knights Templar, declaring it to be an army of God. Led by the Frenchman Hughes de Payens, the Knights Templar organization was founded in 1118. Its self-imposed mission was to protect Christian pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land during the Crusades, the series of military expeditions aimed at defeating Muslims in Palestine.

Archaeologists have uncovered Britain's "Pompeii" after discovering the "best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever found" in the country. The circular wooden houses, built on stilts, form part of a settlement at Must Farm quarry, in Cambridgeshire, and date to about 1000-800 BC.

The budget boozer’s carpets may look as if they are designed to disguise vomit but, in reality, each one is a bespoke work of art

Christine L. Corton reminds us that England’s capital “has always been susceptible to mist and murk.” By Michael Dirda. (Nov. 16)

Hendrix moved to England in 1966 and teamed up with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell to form The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The group scored an almost immediate UK hit with “Hey Joe,” which was released in mid-December. It was 10 days later, however, on December 26, 1966, that Hendrix wrote “Purple Haze”—the song that would not only give him his breakthrough hit in the United States, but also go on to define an entire musical era.

A redheaded British man, who fantasized about assassinating Prince Charles with a rifle so Prince Harry could become king, has been detained indefinitely under mental health laws. Mark Colborne, who compared himself to Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, was convicted of planning terrorism in September. Prosecutors said the 37-year-old wrote about his hatred for “non-Aryans” and about how he was “looking for major retribution, a mass terrorist attack.”

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A British grandmother locked in a public restroom for four days said she kept warm using a hand dryer and passed the time by knitting a scarf. Gladys Phillips, 82, said she was out shopping in Felixstowe, England, when she made a pit stop in a public restroom that she didn't realize was not yet open to the public.

The number of children spending Christmas in temporary accommodation in England has reached a seven-year high, the housing charity Shelter has said. New figures show there were 14,670 households accepted as homeless between July and September, the largest number since 2008. According to Shelter, more than 103,000 children will spend Christmas in B&Bs, hostels or temporary rented homes.

The British ship Mayflower docked at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, and its passengers prepared to begin their new settlement, Plymouth Colony.

The British are supposed to have rotten teeth. Sure, Brits sometimes sound smarter than us, they know how to handle themselves around silverware and some of their apartments (nay, flats) are older than our form of democracy. But we have the better teeth, supposedly, and that at least gives something to lord over the English. Just look at Austin Powers. Ugh. But a new study published in The British Medical Journal threatens to turn the tables on American dental superiority once and for all.

Across the country, pubs are being shuttered at an alarming rate – scooped up by developers and ransacked for profit – changing the face of neighbourhoods and turning our beloved locals into estate agents, betting shops, and luxury flats. This is the story of how one pub fought back. By Tom Lamont.

University of Leicester team reveals insights into Roman and medieval domestic life beneath former city centre bus depot

The United States and Britain are bound by a common language and a shared history, and their law enforcement agencies have been close partners for generations. But a difference long curious to Americans stands out: Most British police officers are unarmed, a distinction particularly pronounced here in Scotland, where 98 percent of the country’s officers do not carry guns. For them, calming a situation through talk, rather than escalating it with weapons...

A trove of Viking jewelry and Saxon coins unearthed by an amateur treasure-hunter in a farmer's field may help rescue an English king from obscurity.