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Chilean social media users target institution, forcing it at one point to close comments on all its postsThe British Museum is tackling an influx of social media trolls from Chile, who have flooded the museum’s Instagram posts calling for the return of…
Antiquities authority drops proposal for Menkaure pyramid after review prompted by international outcryEgypt has scuttled a controversial plan to reinstall ancient granite cladding on the pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of the three great pyramids of…
Portraits and objects explore those who looked after the royals, from ‘the keeper of ice and snow’ to the ‘groom of the stool’From pages to cooks, and wet nurses to seamstresses, little is known about the servants and courtiers who ran the royal palace…
Origins of Dorset hillside chalk figure was as muster station for West Saxon armies fending off Vikings, historians concludeFor centuries, historians and archaeologists have puzzled over the origins of the Cerne Abbas giant, the huge, naked, club-wield…
L Robson & Sons is the only surviving fish-curing business in the village of Craster, where the herring industry once thrivedA modest stone smokehouse blackened with the history of Britain’s love-hate relationship with the kipper has been given lis…
Amnesty says heritage body has ‘fallen short’ in its responsibility to thousands of families thrown off the complex in CambodiaUnesco has “fallen short of its responsibility to uphold and promote human rights” amid mass evictions at Cambodia’s Angkor W…
Isabella Walsh has contacted embassies and consulates to repatriate 10 objects that her father wanted to be returnedAn Irish woman has been inspired by the Guardian to return her late father’s collection of 19th century African and Aboriginal objects t…
Water-stained bill of fare from three days before disaster reveals passengers dined on shellfish, salmon, squab and Victoria puddingIt was not quite the last supper for the first-class passengers on board RMS Titanic, but very nearly. A unique survivin…
Hotel that inspired Charles Dickens added to Heritage at Risk Register alongside Gunpowder Plot houseCharles Dickens described it as an enormous, labyrinthine tavern that was “known far and wide” and famous for its stone statue of an animal “distantly …
How much do you remember from your history lessons about Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot?Year by year, it seems that Halloween becomes more popular in the UK and the tradition of bonfire night recedes into the distance. Possibly because it is more fu…