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MP calls for region where Battle of Hastings took place to be included in events surrounding return of artworkThe MP for Hastings and Rye has called on the British Museum to let the Bayeux tapestry spend time in “1066 country” when it comes to the UK, …
Fresh plea for funds to repair copy of frigate that carried Louis XVI’s pledge of aid in American war of independenceFrench maritime enthusiasts are battling to save a replica of an 18th-century warship that became a symbol of the country’s historic re…
Exclusive: Conservation charity hit by employer national insurance and minimum wage bill aims to save £26mThe National Trust is to cut at least 550 jobs in efforts to save £26m after changes made in Rachel Reeves’s debut budget pushed up labour costs.T…
Ex-PM among those saying they will take legal action over ‘covert’ plans to return sculptures to GreeceThe former British prime minister Liz Truss and a hard-right lobby group have been accused of stoking culture wars after putting their names to a let…
Tapestry to go on display in British Museum next year, with treasures from Sutton Hoo lent to France in exchangeThe Bayeux tapestry will return to the UK for the first time in more than 900 years as part of a landmark loan agreement by Keir Starmer and…
Author wants to take arts to ‘middle of wonderful nowhere’ in far south-west, often missed by people heading for coastThe author Sir Michael Morpurgo has spoken of the importance of taking the arts to places off the beaten track as he prepares for a re…
Newly restored material from vast archive destroyed in civil war takes in Anglo-Norman conquest and 1798 rebellionSeven centuries of lost historical records covering espionage, political corruption and the lives of ordinary people in Ireland have been …
Judges praise County Durham attraction’s ‘remarkable attention to detail’ in bringing history to lifeBeamish, the Living Museum of the North, has won the prestigious Art Fund museum of the year award, the largest such prize in the world.Awarding it the…
Nick Merriman’s exit, for personal reasons, welcomed by some after redundancies and winter closures aimed at ‘financial sustainability’The chief executive of English Heritage has stepped down, to relief from some staff angered by cost cutting under his…
Combination of weekend timing and good weather could make this year’s event one of the busiest in yearsGlen Michael Herbert, a woodcarver known as Herbie to his friends, summed up the draw of the summer solstice beautifully.“It’s a spiritual thing that…