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Tapestry to go on display in British Museum next year, with treasures from Sutton Hoo lent to France in exchangeThe Bayeux tapestry will return to the UK for the first time in more than 900 years as part of a landmark loan agreement by Keir Starmer and…
Author wants to take arts to ‘middle of wonderful nowhere’ in far south-west, often missed by people heading for coastThe author Sir Michael Morpurgo has spoken of the importance of taking the arts to places off the beaten track as he prepares for a re…
Newly restored material from vast archive destroyed in civil war takes in Anglo-Norman conquest and 1798 rebellionSeven centuries of lost historical records covering espionage, political corruption and the lives of ordinary people in Ireland have been …
Judges praise County Durham attraction’s ‘remarkable attention to detail’ in bringing history to lifeBeamish, the Living Museum of the North, has won the prestigious Art Fund museum of the year award, the largest such prize in the world.Awarding it the…
Nick Merriman’s exit, for personal reasons, welcomed by some after redundancies and winter closures aimed at ‘financial sustainability’The chief executive of English Heritage has stepped down, to relief from some staff angered by cost cutting under his…
Combination of weekend timing and good weather could make this year’s event one of the busiest in yearsGlen Michael Herbert, a woodcarver known as Herbie to his friends, summed up the draw of the summer solstice beautifully.“It’s a spiritual thing that…
Organisers seek an extra £40,000 for a memorial to Mary Clarke, the first suffragette to die for women’s rights The campaign to commemorate the first suffragette to die for women’s rights is facing a funding crisis.Mary Clarke, who was the sister of Em…
Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, AKA ‘the Wigwam’, recognised as one of UK’s most important buildingsIt’s known locally as the “Wigwam” or the “Mersey Funnel”, although one architect also likened it to “a gargantuan concrete aberration from t…
Norman Cross prison in Cambridgeshire was home to up to 7,000 inmates during French Revolutionary and Napoleonic warsThe French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars saw thousands of enemy prisoners incarcerated in the UK; so many that the Admiralty, with …
Organisation to mark 500 years since uprising against Cardinal Wolsey’s closure of Bayham AbbeyThey included a brewer, a tailor and a shoemaker – a hardy bunch of craftspeople prepared to stand up to the might of the Tudor regime to try to save their l…