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Number of traditional skills that are critically endangered jumps to 72 but other crafts are making a comebackFor many centuries the cities, towns and villages of the UK were enlivened and enriched by the sights and sounds of craftspeople creating beau…
Exclusive: University College London acquires Gollancz archive that was in danger of being dispersed foreverGeorge Orwell’s correspondence, contracts and readers’ reports relating to his earliest novels are among historic papers that have been saved fo…
Many saw the beloved tree that Adam Carruthers and Daniel Graham cut down as a part of north-east England’s DNA“It was just a tree,” said a mystified Adam Carruthers, one of the two men who illegally cut down the tree at Sycamore Gap in the early hours…
Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, found to have criminally damaged tree and Hadrian’s Wall‘Stealing joy’: the sadness and symbolism of the crime at Sycamore GapTwo friends who embarked on a “moronic mission” to fell the Sycamore Gap tree with…
Oldest surviving version from 1308 is dwarfed in size by 21-metre roll produced more than 700 years laterThe oldest surviving coronation roll – a 2ft hand-stitched official record of Edward II’s 1308 crowning at Westminster Abbey – is dwarfed by the 21…
‘Pilot gigs’ were crucial for islanders for centuries and 90 important sites housing the boats have been identifiedSwift, streamlined boats for centuries helped save lives and move people and goods around the treacherous waters of the Isles of Scilly.A…
Wealthy fans of Brideshead Revisited or Bridgerton may soon be able to stay at newly refurbished Castle HowardLaurence Olivier’s elderly Lord Marchmain in Brideshead Revisited died in it and a pair of hot young newlywed aristocrats in Bridgerton made o…
Guides point out some of the thousands of marks around church – but stories behind many of them remain elusiveYou don’t notice them at first. The eyes tend to be drawn to the grander wonders – the altars, the stained glass, the pillars and flowing arch…
Books include religious scriptures and scribbled jokes, giving glimpse of daily lives of early medieval Irish monksMore than 1,000 years ago, Irish monks took precious manuscripts to the European continent to protect them from Viking raids and to sprea…
Petition calls for official recognition of the ‘historic and traditional serving method’ that is ‘unique to the UK’It is one of Britain’s most historic drinks, still sold in thousands of pubs across the nation, but cask beer has long been in decline.Be…