The ceremonial county of Berkshire is smaller than the historic county of Berkshire; a large portion of the area was absorbed ...

Charlotte Wood’s novel, a Booker Prize finalist, follows an atheist whose mysterious path led her to live among nuns in a ...

Visitors can collect 'living history character cards' from staff dressed in historical costumes, who will share the ...

Today is release day for The Game Kitchen's The Stone Of Madness, an isometric tactical stealth game set in an 18th century ...

The centuries-old item, also known as the Stone of Scone, has played a role in the crowning of British monarchs since the ...

Joe Madden, 22, was an activist with campaign group This is Rigged when he attacked a display case containing a crown and the Stone of Destiny in a protest over the cost-of-living crisis, causing ...

The researcher who is trying to trace the “hidden” fragments of the Stone of Destiny believes she has decoded another mystery of the ancient artefact – Roman numerals which were etched on to it. A ...

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Just Stop Oil said its activists sprayed Darwin's ledger stone on Monday Two women have been charged with criminal damage after Charles Darwin's grave in Westminster Abbey was daubed with orange ...

The pair entered Westminster Abbey at about 10am and use spray chalk to write ‘1.5 Is Dead’ on Charles Darwin’s grave, in reference to Friday's announcement that the world has exceeded the ...

Swindon North MP Will Stone is one of a diminishing number of members of the House of Commons to have a greyhound racing stadium in their constituency. And he is one of an even smaller number to ...