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Proceeds from potential sale of Edmé Bouchardon’s 18th-century sculpture could be used for community projectsIn a hunt for ceremonial robes and chains, a dusty chunk of stone propping open the door of a storage shed in Balintore, Easter Ross, was almos…
Exclusive: majority of British people found to have ‘shockingly little’ knowledge about Black British historyMore than half of Britons know so little about Black British history that they cannot name a single historical figure, a survey has revealed.Th…
Library photographs and uploads its entire collection of manuscripts by author of The Canterbury Tales The entire collection of Geoffrey Chaucer’s works held by the British Library is being made available in digital format after the completion of a tw…
Repairs to footbridge mean straw must be dangled to warn oncoming shipping of work going on beneathWorkers on London’s Millennium Bridge are hanging a bale of straw under the structure after triggering an ancient bylaw.Repair works to the footbridge me…
Plaster sculpture bought by Glasgow Museum from the artist in 1901 is ‘unlocated’A statue by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, part of his famous Les Bourgeois de Calais group, is currently “unlocated” in Glasgow’s art collections, museum officials ha…
The Guardian attends a session of the six-week course Let’s Talk Tyke! on a drizzly morning in Keighley“Mek thisen at ‘ome, lass,” says Rod Dimbleby, shortly after the Guardian arrives at his Yorkshire dialect class. He introduces the group of nearly t…
Appeal follows emptying of shelves in apparent misunderstanding at ‘fill a bag with books for £1’ eventVolunteers at Batley library who watched helplessly as the shelves were emptied in a book sale misunderstanding are urging those who took books to co…
As National Trust draws line under criminal act, members of public suggest future uses for timber Some saw the day as a chance to say farewell. One person described the event as a “full stop” to the saga. But as the criminally felled, world-famous Syca…
Innovative scanning techniques show painting of sculptures was potentially as intricate as their carvingThough the Parthenon marbles were admired for centuries for their stark white brilliance, it has long been known that the sculptures were originally…
Experts uncover 17th-century coins at site linked with clan chief Alasdair Ruadh ‘Maclain’ MacDonaldA hoard of coins linked to a Highland chief – which may have been stashed away as he tried in vain to escape the Glen Coe massacre – has been discovered…