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Research shows our imaginations grow richer with age so the charity is giving grownups a chance to have funParents are used to watching their children eagerly dress up as a knight or a gladiator before going bananas when they visit castles, forts and s…
DNA analysis of tooth enamel solves puzzle of 2,000-year-old grave on Bryher also containing sword and mirrorScientists have solved the mystery of a 2,000-year-old grave on the Isles of Scilly, raising intriguing questions about warfare in iron age Bri…
Though some neighbours still object to Miranda Dickson’s front door colour, the council has backed downFirst it was an unacceptable pink, and then an unacceptable green. Now the owner of Edinburgh’s most famous front door has won, with a colour which c…
Set of 13 Gideon tapestries in Hardwick Hall unveiled after painstaking work cleaning and stitching huge piecesAfter a 24-year project, the National Trust has finally finished the restoration of a set of 16th-century tapestries at Hardwick Hall in Derb…
K8s installed on tube stations between 1968 and 1983 are listed for architectural and historic interestFour rare phone boxes on London Underground stations have been given Grade II-listed status by the government for their architectural and historic in…
Exclusive: Sir Henry Parkes memorial school of arts – home of the 1889 Tenterfield oration – to close in a fortnightGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe first museum included on the National Trust register will c…
British Library uses new technique to uncover passages of Camden’s Annals, the first official account of Elizabeth’s reignIt was the first official account of Elizabeth I’s reign, one of the most valuable sources on early modern Britain, commissioned b…
Exclusive: Document was originally thought to be written by clerk on behalf of Canterbury Tales writer who worked as civil servantA 14th-century bureaucratic document requesting time off work for a civil servant has been identified as the only survivin…
Experts delighted portrait re-found but say this is ‘cautionary tale’, stressing importance of rigorous checks to avoid misattributionAfter being consigned to dark storage rooms for up to six decades as the work of an unknown artist, a portrait of a on…
As mechanical bird’s 250th anniversary arrives, time and lack of regular use in lockdowns has taken tollUnderstandably, because it is 250 years old, the mechanical silver swan of Barnard Castle is not quite at its best.“It does work but when it moves t…