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Experts and volunteers working at Castilly Henge have been trying determine if it is the county’s lost great stone circleIt was a grey Cornish autumn day, but Henry Stevens’s tough shift digging in a field next to the A30 was about to get very exciting…
Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk He was the leading English composer of the 17th century, writing masterpieces such as Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen before his life was cu…
South Wales police issue public appeal for information after burglary at one of Wales’s most beloved museumsRaiders have broken into one of Wales’s most beloved museums and stolen gold jewellery from the bronze age.Staff at St Fagans National Museum of…
Two years after the tree was cut down, the National Trust says it wants to turn a sense of loss ‘into a sense of hope’Artists are being asked for ideas to create a “nationally important” work from the wood of the illegally felled Sycamore Gap tree whic…
Exclusive: Author challenges assumption monks on Iona created manuscript, instead positing its origins are PictishThe Book of Kells was likely to have been created 1,200 years ago in Pictish eastern Scotland, rather than on the island of Iona, accordin…
Exclusive: Regent Sounds recording studio in London to be turned into landmark site for rock’n’roll, jazz and bluesThe Regent Sounds recording studio on “Tin Pan Alley” in London was famously used by Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and the Rolling Stones bet…
Hopwood DePree has been leading efforts to renovate listed Hopwood Hall, nicknamed ‘Downton Shabby’, since 2017It was a story fit for the pages of a Hollywood screenplay, with a California actor moving to a town in north Manchester to restore his dilap…
Archaeological institution hurriedly removes nearly three decades of finds in ‘high-risk operation’An official in charge of nearly three decades of archaeological finds in Gaza has described how the artefacts were hurriedly evacuated from a Gaza City b…
Wiltshire landmark assessed for damage after red fabric pinned across it to form England flagA 53-metre white horse cut into a Wiltshire hillside about 350 years ago is to be assessed for damage by heritage experts after red fabric was pinned across it…
Perceval Parsons’ plans for station put on sale to mark 200th anniversary of first public passenger railwayThe vaulted arches of New York’s Grand Central station are recognisable even to those who have never taken a train into the Big Apple. But they c…