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L Robson & Sons is the only surviving fish-curing business in the village of Craster, where the herring industry once thrivedA modest stone smokehouse blackened with the history of Britain’s love-hate relationship with the kipper has been given lis…
Amnesty says heritage body has ‘fallen short’ in its responsibility to thousands of families thrown off the complex in CambodiaUnesco has “fallen short of its responsibility to uphold and promote human rights” amid mass evictions at Cambodia’s Angkor W…
Isabella Walsh has contacted embassies and consulates to repatriate 10 objects that her father wanted to be returnedAn Irish woman has been inspired by the Guardian to return her late father’s collection of 19th century African and Aboriginal objects t…
Water-stained bill of fare from three days before disaster reveals passengers dined on shellfish, salmon, squab and Victoria puddingIt was not quite the last supper for the first-class passengers on board RMS Titanic, but very nearly. A unique survivin…
Hotel that inspired Charles Dickens added to Heritage at Risk Register alongside Gunpowder Plot houseCharles Dickens described it as an enormous, labyrinthine tavern that was “known far and wide” and famous for its stone statue of an animal “distantly …
How much do you remember from your history lessons about Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot?Year by year, it seems that Halloween becomes more popular in the UK and the tradition of bonfire night recedes into the distance. Possibly because it is more fu…
Proceeds from potential sale of Edmé Bouchardon’s 18th-century sculpture could be used for community projectsIn a hunt for ceremonial robes and chains, a dusty chunk of stone propping open the door of a storage shed in Balintore, Easter Ross, was almos…
Exclusive: majority of British people found to have ‘shockingly little’ knowledge about Black British historyMore than half of Britons know so little about Black British history that they cannot name a single historical figure, a survey has revealed.Th…
Library photographs and uploads its entire collection of manuscripts by author of The Canterbury Tales The entire collection of Geoffrey Chaucer’s works held by the British Library is being made available in digital format after the completion of a tw…
Repairs to footbridge mean straw must be dangled to warn oncoming shipping of work going on beneathWorkers on London’s Millennium Bridge are hanging a bale of straw under the structure after triggering an ancient bylaw.Repair works to the footbridge me…