Stonehenge was sprayed in orange powder, Charles Darwin’s grave daubed in paint, a lump hammer and chisel taken to the glass ...

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With Monday's rule change by the BHA, any horse in the future remaining as a race's lone starter will now be declared the ...

Historic retailer WH Smith has quit the UK high street after 233 years. The books and stationery retailer has sold its 480 ...

Joe Dodoo wrote himself in the Leicester City history books when he scored a hat-trick on his debut at Bury, and he's now ...

Musical memoirs, medical histories, and foreign office insights populate the second annual shortlist of the Women's Prize for ...

Henry Walton Smith opened the first shop - a newsagents week 230 years ago and this week announced the WHSmith name is ...

The fight for American independence needed more than colonial arms. Britain’s diplomatic isolation proved a powerful weapon ...

As emotive as the subject may be, Rot moves beyond sentiment, ideology and the false comforts of denial and denunciation.

A new history of women stockbrokers, authored by a Lancaster University professor, captures the stories of the businesswomen who fought against the ...

“We live in the stupidest possible version of human history,” said Nish Kumar to a roaring packed Largo at the Coronet in LA ...

One of Britain’s lesser-known islands, just 10 miles from Devon, has a dark and unknown history filled with links to piracy, ...