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An advisory body to Unesco branded the idea by the owners of Elterwater slate quarry in the Langdale valley ‘adventure tourism’An international heritage body has condemned plans for an underground zip-wire attraction in the Lake District as a “theme pa…
National Trust buys Smith’s Cliff, near Tintagel Castle in Cornwall where legend says king was conceivedRugged cliffs that plunge into the Atlantic on a stretch of Cornish coast renowned for its legendary links to King Arthur are to be turned into a ha…
Chair of parliamentary reparations group hits out at law preventing return of Parthenon marbles and Benin bronzesAn MP has said suspected thefts at the British Museum have exposed the “insulting ridiculousness” of its refusal to return contested artefa…
When the Romantic poet’s younger brother John died at sea, marine artefacts helped him bear the loss, research revealsWhen William Wordsworth’s beloved younger brother John died on a ship that sank in rough seas off the coast of Dorset in 1805, the gre…
Votes invited for the public’s top 10 resorts and experiences, from beach huts and lidos to the Blackpool TowerThe British seaside may be derided by some for being as tacky as the candyfloss stuck to the side of your mouth. Yet tackiness is fundamental…
Researchers call for urgent stabilisation efforts so the ship, which brought settlers to the state in 1836 and was used in whaling, can be studiedThe wreck of a ship that brought immigrants to Australia, served as a whaling platform and was used as a m…
Campaigners to return to the courts after planned two-mile tunnel near site, blocked in 2021, is greenlit againCampaigners have launched a fresh legal battle after the government once again greenlit plans for a controversial road tunnel at Stonehenge, …
Fischer to step down after blunders prompt international embarrassment and questions about systemic failuresArtefacts stolen from British Museum ‘may be untraceable’The head of the British Museum has resigned and his deputy has stepped back over its ha…
Dickens was taken out of school aged 11 to work in a London blacking factory as his father sank into debtIt was an experience that ruptured his childhood but shaped his life’s work. Two hundred years ago, 11-year-old Charles Dickens was taken out of sc…
Focusing on movement’s history and legacy, centre will be housed in former ANC HQ bombed by South African police in 1982The first centre dedicated to the history and legacy of the UK’s anti-apartheid movement is expected to open next year after a £1.2m…