Edwardian to now
Explore the history of Britain since 1900 with exhibitions, events, features, news and web resources gathered from hundreds of museums, archives and historic sites across the UK.
Curator's Choice: Ciara Phipps on colourful court shoes at Newcastle's Discovery Museum
Find out about a pair of shoes which were handmade in Paris for a dancer during the 1920s but illustrate a design style still prevalent in swish footwear almost a century on.
National Railway Museum makes final touches to magnificent Dominion of Canada train
Organisers in York say the painstaking process of adding lettering to the side of a 1930s locomotive from Canada is the culmination of a "labour of love".
First past the chequered flag: Silverstone qualifies for Heritage Lottery Fund support
The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced initial support worth £68 million for six major projects in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Dying for the Vote: Militant suffragette Emily Wilding Davison at Bourne Hall Museum
In June 1913 Emily Wilding Davison's cause of death was recorded as "misadventure". Bourne Hall Museum revisits the events of the day in a celebration of her life and the cause for which she died.
The eggs and bin bags of Gavin Turk in The Years at Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
Surveying two decades of provocative works by the Connect10 artist, Gavin Turk's latest exhibition at Ben Brown Fine Arts features pop art portrayals and bulging busts.
Mallard 75: The journey of a legendary locomotive in York
Ahead of this year's celebrations reuniting engines which now call Canada and North America home, we take a look back with the National Railway Museum.
Boris Aronson and the Avant-garde Yiddish Theatre Kiev entertain the Ben Uri Gallery
Featuring the works of the son of the Rabbi of Kiev who became an acclaimed New York theatre design via Moscow, Paris and Berlin, the Ben Uri's new show is a dramatic one.
National Railway Museum launches countdown to Mallard 75 in Yorkshire
Flags have been flown in Doncaster and York Castle has been lit up as part of the build up to the 75th anniversary of the Mallard breaking the world steam speed record.
A view through the Urban Eye of Charlie Phillips at Nottingham's New Art Exchange
Growing up in an at-times hostile West London, Charlie Phillips began portraying the Caribbean community of the 1950s and 1960s. His photos are hidden stories of life.
Chez Paulette on the Sunset Strip takes Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson to Plymouth Peninsula
Transporting a star-studded Los Angeles coffee house from half a century ago to Devon, Peninsula Arts Gallery's new show owes everything to a great storyteller.
Dot Dot Dash: Communicating in Wales at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth
Dot Dot Dash at the National Library of Wales traces key milestones of communication in Wales through film and audio archives, cartoons and retro gadgets.
Jonathan Kenworthy's African influences in Six Decades of Sculpture at Pangolin London
Once a child prodigy enrolled at the Royal College of Art at the tender age of 11, Jonathan Kenworthy's retrospective shows an artist depicting Africa in original style.
Earl Mountbatten's James Bond-style gold-plated pen-pistol joins Royal Armouries
A £13,000 pistol-concealing pen, presented to the late Maharaja Hanwant Singh of Marwar-Jodhpur by royal family cohort Lord Louis, could go on public show.
World's fastest car, Babs, visits Swansea's National Waterfront Museum
Forty-two years after its redesigner died trying to beat its 172 mph record, a Bangor University lecturer's replica of a 1.72 ton speed demon has gone on show in Swansea.
A Centenary of Stainless Steel: The Old Hall Connection at Walsall Museum
Who knew about the impact stainless steel had in Walsall? A new show reveals a design dream created by a husband and wife unimpressed with their cleaning nearly a century ago.
