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Letter to incoming commissioners says city’s culture must be preserved and prioritisedBirmingham’s financial reconstruction must not come at the cost of its priceless heritage, three of the country’s biggest cultural organisations have said.After Birmi…
Museum says 60 items have been returned to date and 300 are due to be returned soonThe British Museum has asked the public to help it identify and recover items believed to have been stolen from its collection, as it announced it had already retrieved …
Other sites to be restored include Cardiff’s Victorian market, Lowestoft town hall and a lochside churchA 19th-century thatched ice house that was an important staging post for fish between the sea and the nation’s stomachs is to be transformed into a …
Co-operative enterprise Vale of Aeron is one of 45 projects to receive money in Community Ownership Fund’s latest roundWhen Iwan Thomas received the news that he had won a £300,000 grant for the Vale of Aeron, a pub adored by the poet Dylan Thomas when…
Much-delayed £38.6m project brings works from 1800 to 1945 together for the first time as single collectionA suite of new galleries built to present work by many of Scotland’s most famous artists, including the Glasgow Boys, Phoebe Anna Traquair and Ch…
Archaeologists to survey waters off coast of northern France using latest technology to scour seabedChurchill called the mass evacuation of allied forces from the beach and pier at Dunkirk a “miracle of deliverance”, but the operation to rescue more th…
Membership steady and income from legacies tops £70m in financial yearThe National Trust spent a record £179.6m on the conservation of its historic buildings and collections in the last year in the face of significant challenges regarding rising costs….
Annotations in eighth-century manuscript point to work of revered English monk, scholar and saintHis life of service through scholarship earned him the title “venerable”. He is considered one of the most influential thinkers of the post-Roman world, an…
Exclusive: local trust that backs proposal says there is urgent need to tackle impact of greater tourismScotland’s heritage agency plans to introduce an admission fee at the neolithic Calanais standing stones, one of the most popular and revered cultur…
Exclusive: Papers, notebooks, letters, speeches and photos from 60-year career in public life donated by daughterThe British Library has acquired the archive of Shirley Williams, one of the most influential figures in British social democracy in the se…