In a strong October wind, I clambered along the edge of the Pennine Hills, the mountain backbone of northern England, and found myself between pastoral and industrial worlds. To my right, moorlands stretched out in a wind-scoured expanse. To my left, the ...

While first-time visitors to the United Kingdom rarely venture farther beyond London and perhaps some famous nearby southern destinations such as Oxford or Stonehenge, many other parts of the country are seeing significant spikes in traveler numbers — both from Brits traveling closer to home and

If you go see the Northern Lights Friday night, send your photos to weather@globe.com. We will feature a few of our favorites on Globe.com. An extremely active region of the sun’s surface produced one of the strongest geomagnetic storms ever earlier this ...

Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. The Met Office said: “Fast ...

A stash of "unusually large" 2,000-year-old shoes dug up at a Roman site in northern England has left archaeologists searching for an explanation, they told AFP on Thursday. Eight large shoes, including one measuring nearly 13 inches long — equivalent to ...

KING HENRY VIII of England had no doubts. In 1536, faced with uppity “traitors and rebels,” he dubbed the county of Lincolnshire as one of the “most brute and beestelie [beastly] of the hole realme.” It was a tad unfair but, even today, the county ...

It’s well chronicled that wave after wave of Vikings from Scandinavia terrorised western Europe for 250 years from the end of the eighth century AD and wreaked particular havoc across vast areas of northern England. There’s no shortage of evidence of ...