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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…
William Mitchell artwork saved but Blackheath community centre in which it was housed will be torn downA rare piece of postwar art that was under threat of being demolished along with the south London building it was housed in has been saved.The work, …
Artwork thought to date from reign of Elizabeth I reveals how those with disposable incomes decorated their homesRare and fantastical 16th-century wall paintings which shine light on the interior design tastes of well-off Tudors have been revealed in a…
Churches fear new tax rules will put major restoration programmes at listed places of worship in jeopardyA 500-year-old Grade I listed church in Totnes, Devon, is one of thousands facing a financial blow after the government effectively imposed VAT on …
Quest to restore sound that called child workers to Flaxmill Maltings building, which paved way for modern high-risesFor almost 200 years, the bell tolled to mark the start and end of the working day at one of the UK’s most remarkable industrial sites …
Exhibition opens this week in Taunton Castle, where mass death sentences were infamously issued during Bloody AssizesA fresh look at an ill-fated 17th-century uprising that haunts the English West Country – and may hold lessons for the world today – is…
Academic who died in 1987 is thought to be responsible for documents that vanished over a 30-year periodScotland’s national archive has traced the mysterious disappearance of more than 3,000 historical documents over a period of 30 years to a history p…
More than 800 objects unearthed near Melsonby show the north was ‘definitely not a backwater’ 2,000 years agoOne of the biggest and most important iron age hoards ever found in the UK has been revealed, potentially altering our understanding of life in…
BT had planned to remove the familiar red kiosk in rural Norfolk until 89-year-old Derek Harris intervenedAn 89-year-old man has won his battle to save the last remaining phone box in a village in East Anglia.
Derek Harris learned in January that BT w…
Conservation charity is also pausing some projects because of labour costs stemming from the autumn budgetThe National Trust has frozen all but essential recruitment and is pausing some projects as it faces a £10m jump in labour costs this year as a re…