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Klein Hollandia discovery ‘opens up fascinating chapter in rich, shared maritime history between UK and Netherlands’A remarkably preserved shipwreck known only as the “unknown wreck off Eastbourne” has finally been identified as the 17th-century Dutch …
Journalist and activist Claudia Jones among five women whose life and legacy will be marked by English HeritageThe woman described as the “founding spirit” of the Notting Hill carnival is to be commemorated with a blue plaque at her former London home …
National Highways faces third intervention by a local authority over infilling, after burying Congham bridge in Norfolk in tonnes of concreteA controversial practice by the government’s roads agency of burying historic railway bridges in concrete has b…
A plan from Czech railways to replace the emblematic landmark with a modern structure is facing an impassioned backlashA historic Prague railway bridge, whose importance to the city’s landscape has been compared to the Eiffel tower in Paris, has been e…
Sculptor Michael Rakowitz says he will give his fourth-plinth bull to Tate Modern if Iraq can share custodyThe Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz has proposed in a letter to the British Museum that it return one of its ancient Assyrian treasures to…
Oak and beech 15th-century vessel is being returned to Welsh city where it was found in riverside mud in 2002The final pieces of what has been compared to a huge, heavy – but also very delicate – 3D medieval puzzle are being returned to the Welsh city…
Show at Queen’s Gallery provides picture of style in the royal courts along with changing trends in societyThe wide, hooped gowns worn by women in the 18th-century court of Queen Charlotte were not just the style of the time, but a regal requirement.Bu…
Saga continues over property housing Caravaggio’s only ceiling fresco as fifth auction fails to attract bidsA princess living in a villa in Rome that contains the only ceiling fresco ever painted by Caravaggio has said she would “vigorously defend” her…
Paintings adorning grand staircase of St Bartholomew’s to benefit from £5m lottery heritage fund grantTwo paintings by William Hogarth on the walls of a grand staircase at St Bartholomew’s hospital in London are to be restored with the help of a £4.9m …
Clerical leaders hope for ‘lasting legacy’ to serve places affected by past slavery trade, but fund may spread thinly across all of west Africa and CaribbeanThe Church of England’s decision to set up a £100m fund for communities adversely affected by h…