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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…
Jay Stanley hands over 30 artefacts, including vases and figurines from 6th to 3rd centuries BC, found in late father’s homeAn American man has returned 30 antiquities to Italy after reading a Guardian report about a fellow countryman who sent 19 antiq…
Younger collectors drive up prices of ‘kitsch’ ceramic animals as Victoriana look returns yet againPairs of Staffordshire ceramic dogs, once commonplace on Victorian mantelpieces, are having a sudden resurgence with a boom in demand from a new generati…
Craig Best and Roger Pilling sentenced to more than five years for trying to illegally sell coins worth £766,000Two metal detector enthusiasts who conspired to illegally sell a cache of Anglo Saxon coins which help change our understanding of Alfred th…
Remains of once vast riverside structure granted legal protection against unauthorised changeThree sections of a huge but little-known Roman wall, discovered under the City of London, have been given protected status as scheduled national monuments.The…