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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…
Tim Loughton responds after archaeologists’ association raised concerns about protection of Greece’s heritageThe chair of parliament’s all-party parliamentary group for the British Museum has accused Greece of “blatant opportunism” in claiming the inst…
It has taken 20 years for passionate group of volunteers to save Cleveland Pools first built in 1815A beautiful Georgian lido in Bath, reputed to be the UK’s oldest public outdoor swimming pool, is to reopen to the public next month.The first swimmers …
English Heritage gives Belsay Hall a makeover, with new roof and revived gardens“It is an amazing construction and should be more famous,” said English Heritage properties curator Mark Douglas in the vast, echoing cellars of a remarkable, Greek temple-…
‘Travellers’ rest’ stones were idea of Warrington doctor and part of wider scheme to help migrant workersThey are found on busy road junctions, a traffic island and a petrol station forecourt and have been passed by countless numbers of walkers, runner…