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Warring factions urged to preserve heritage after video clip appears to show fighters raiding Khartoum museumHeritage officials in Sudan have pleaded with warring factions to preserve tens of thousands of historical artefacts threatened by fighting in …
Classic, smoke-stained Dutch drinking spots should be given protected status, say campaignersOn the bar is a dispenser for Dutch jenever – the liquor that inspired British gin – silver taps of lager and 10 hard-boiled eggs at €1 a pop.Café de Druif is …
Charity calls for public to nominate notable women for project, with 85% of plaques currently honouring menThe disparity between men and women honoured by the London blue plaques scheme is so great that it would take 300 years, at current rates, to rea…
Exclusive: Archaeologist says 5th-century BC wine vase with modern decoration widely regarded as fakeDays after Greece announced the recovery of hundreds of antiquities from a disgraced British dealer, its ministry of culture faces the accusation that …
Revamped Wroxeter Roman City in Shropshire will display beauty items including a strikingly large number of tweezersAs Monty Python fans know, the Romans have done nothing for us apart from giving us sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order,…
Prince Alemayehu, who was taken to England after his father’s citadel was looted, was buried at Windsor Castle in 19th centuryBuckingham Palace has reportedly declined a request to return the remains of an Ethiopian prince who came to be buried at Wind…
Some members of justice group pull out from art project over lack of input in formal pandemic inquiryUK politics live – latest updatesBritain’s Covid experience is to be woven into an official tapestry, following a tradition running from the Norman con…
Hunterian Museum collection amassed by 18th-century surgeon-anatomist John Hunter includes body parts of humans and animalsThe relaunch of an extraordinary collection of human and animal specimens gathered in the 18th century by a medical pioneer has p…
Skills may be lost for good due to ‘perfect storm’ of economic stresses, says heritage charityFrom building wooden boats and Cornish hedges to making marionettes and painting canal barges, many traditional British crafts are under threat because of a “…
More than 1,000 people gather at Caernarfon Castle to demand new law to regulate market and protect communitiesMore than 1,000 people gathered outside Caernarfon Castle in north Wales for a rally protesting against second homes, which they say are “des…