History & Heritage
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Rescued from the skip in 2010, a statue of a cult cartoon character will stand at the entrance to a summer show in Manchester following careful surgery on his severed limbs.
Clad in the Queen's uniform, a group of rowers will monitor swans as part of an ancient tradition on the Thames this month. An exhibition devoted to them explains more.
Cerith Wyn Evans and Maggi Hambling are among 16 artists responding to the centenary of composer Benjamin Britten's birth in Suffolk. We take a look at some of them.
Karen Snowden, of Scarborough Museums Trust, explains why bathing costumes have sparked fashion trends and controversy across the centuries.
The German bomber at the centre of the RAF Museum's delicate, frequently-thwarted underwater excavation has been raised with its wings and engines intact off the coast of Kent.
The Imperial War Museum-led network of organisations marking the centenary of the First World War between 2014 and 2018 has reached more than 1,000 members.
Educational battlefield visits for schoolchildren, a series of candlelit vigils marking the outbreak of war in 1914 and funding for local community projects will be at the centre of the government's......
Two years after construction work began, archivists have been given the keys to an impressive new community resource in Sussex. Duncan Andrews takes a look.
Archaeologists say they came "within 40 minutes" of raising the German plane on the Kent seabed on Sunday, and remain hopeful of completing the lift within 24 hours.
The Royal Shakespeare Company and the Natural History Museum are among ten venues swapping and re-interpreting weird and wonderful exhibits this summer.
Ahead of an expected 10% budget cut in this month's spending review, leaders say a £6 million annual deficit could cause one of the north's popular science museums to close.
A gemstone bearing the heraldic badge of a Viscount has allowed curators to put dates to artefacts ahead of a major exhibition at the Museum of London.
Putting the new-look gallery at the centre of regeneration plans for Waltham Forest, planners say they will make a "real, tangible difference" with the £100,000 flagship museum prize.
Covering the turbulent period between the late 1960s and late 1980s in Derry-Londonderry, a major display of shots by Irish and international photographers in the City of Culture has intense local......
Artists Ali Pretty and Richard White work with the Wiltshire Museum and Devizes Outdoor Celebratory Arts to produce a unique experience of Wiltshire’s chalk hillsides.
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