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‘It’s time for a whole host of other perspectives,’ says museum’s director after £15m redevelopmentAfter 18 months of closure and a £15m redevelopment, Manchester Museum will reopen to the public on Saturday.Alongside the existing collection of about 4…
Trust surprised by 39% slump in silk and wool-loving insect after bumper year in 2021 and think hot weather may have contributedAn alarming increase in the population of clothes moths in National Trust (NT) properties appears to be in retreat, with a d…
Unknown patterns found on ceramics from Josephine Willis, which collided with steamer in 1856 The wreck of a mid-19th century sailing ship transporting British people to New Zealand and with a cargo of exceptionally rare ceramics onboard has been liste…
Experts say codebreakers’ discovery is most significant about royal for more than a centuryA team of codebreakers have cracked secret coded messages in letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots while she was imprisoned by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, in…
Photographs show stones from walls of Roman-era building in Turkey have cascaded down its sideTurkey and Syria earthquake – latest news updatesThe partial destruction of a Roman-era castle in the Turkish city of Gaziantep has led to fears that two eart…
Growing numbers are taking to the fields in search of fresh air, a sense of community and the odd piece of treasureEyes down, headphones on, arm sweeping across the ground, Mandy Duffin slowly paces a Warwickshire field with her metal detector. Sudden…
Crammed with minuscule writing, manuscript is seen as earliest ‘proper reader’s response’ to first folioIn 2017, an expert on BBC One’s Antiques Roadshow was excited by a minuscule 17th-century notebook that bore the name of Shakespeare, but the writin…
Comedian leads coalition against ‘exploitative’ proposal for 16-storey buildings over listed stationGriff Rhys Jones is leading a coalition of conservationists against what he describes as plans to “smother” Liverpool Street station under 109 metres (3…
Viking-inspired parade returns to Shetland after pandemic break as ban on female participation liftedScotland’s Up Helly Aa festival – in picturesIt began with a flare fired overhead into the darkness. Then the torches erupted into flame, casting an in…
Cafe owner Charlie Clarke ‘shrieked like schoolgirl’ when he turned up pristine necklace bearing initials of Henry and Katherine of AragonCharlie Clarke had been metal detectoring for just six months when he stumbled across what he calls his “once in a…