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Committee votes to reject plans saying benefits would not outweigh harm caused by increased trafficPlanners have rejected a proposal for an underground zip – wire attraction in the Lake District, which an international heritage body had condemned and l…
Arts minister keen for project celebrating links between notable figures and where they lived to be rolled out across EnglandThe official blue plaques scheme could be extended outside of London to honour notable figures and their connections to buildin…
The monument dates to between 4000 and 3000BC and is thought to be the only complete example in BritainBelow the rolling heath on the Isle of Arran’s south-west coast, overlooked by harriers and the occasional peregrine, a monument to ancient ceremony …
Local archaeologists dedicate their lives to protect priceless artefacts from smugglers, Hamas and Israeli attacks in a land at history’s crossroadsThere is considerable debate over the origin of the name Gaza. Some etymologists trace it back to azaz, …
Warrant issued in investigation into smuggling of antiquities looted from Turkey and trafficked through USA headless bronze statue believed to depict the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius has been seized from the Cleveland Museum of Art by …
Exhibition at museum’s new site will focus on Thomas Dagger and other ordinary Londoners caught up in 1666 infernoThe Great Fire of London, as so many schoolchildren learn, began in a bakery in Pudding Lane and prompted Samuel Pepys to bury his cheese …
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…