Work & Daily Life
Explore the social history of Britain with exhibitions, events, features, news and web resources collected from museums, archives and historic sites across the UK.
Porthcurno Telegraph Museum mobilises community to capture Olympic Torch Relay
Porthcurno Telegraph Museum is appealing to the local community to get out and photograph the torch relay for an exhibition that combines past with present.
Anne Desmet reveals her Olympic Metamorphoses at PM Gallery and House
Wood-engraved print portraits of the surrounding area and collages of the building phases as the Royal Academy artist responds to the Olympic construction near her home.
Museums at Night 2012: Your guide to museum and gallery sleepover events
The Museums at Night sleepover events are one of the most exciting and magical ways to enjoy this year's festival taking place nationwide during the weekend of May 18-20.
The Art of Design: Kenwood in the Kitchen at Lightbox
Bringing the highly successful Kenwood brand back to Woking, where it was launched by Kenneth Wood 65 years ago, The Lightbox takes a look at a classic design.
Volunteers wanted to describe Bodleian Library's music scores collection online
A vast haul of Victorian musical manuscripts is being opened up to the public in a large crowd sourcing and cataloguing experiment by the Bodleian Library.
Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings meet Prince Charming in Magic Worlds at Weston Park
A land of games and stories as some of the best bits from the V&A Museum of Childhood's collection arrive in a new show at Weston Park in Sheffield.
Brontë cooking experience comes to Parsonage Museum in Haworth
A Halifax culinary centre offers fans the chance to cook like the famous literary sisters in a one-off day course being held this summer.
Hampton Court Palace offers online love advice from 17th century "pimp master general"
The romantically challenged can now put their problems to William Chiffinch, the man responsible for managing the "backstairs intrigues" of King Charles II at Stuart court.
Painstaking conservation effort pays off as Monkwearmouth displays 1972 Olympic Posters
David Hockney, Serge Paliokov, Allen Jones and Max Bill are among the artists whose Olympic artworks have gone on show at Monkwearmouth Station Museum in Sunderland.
England Women celebrate 25 years of mauling at Twickenham's World Rugby Museum
Nicola Ponsford, one of the original members of the first ever England Women side, on the exhibition marking the game's most rapidly expanding side.
Antiques Roadshow expert unearths oldest portrait of a transvestite, Chevalier D’Eon
Painting expert Philip Mould has identified an 18th century portrait of "Father of Transvestites" Chevalier D'Eon - lost since the 1920s - in a New York auction house.
British Library secures oldest surviving book in Europe
Read our Curator's Choice as the British Library's £9 million fundraising campaign to secure the St Cuthbert Gospel succeeds.
Museum of British Surfing rides crest of a North Devon wave after opening in Braunton
Tales of Hawaiian Princes off the historic Bridlington coast and more as one of the largest surfing collections in the world unites fans of waves and sandy shores.
The Games of Zeus summons Olympic spirit at Caerleon's National Roman Legion Museum
Find out why the Greeks once deployed dust as an anti-perspirant and launched the funerals of dignitaries with chariot races in the Roman Legion Museum's new show.
Imperial War Museum looks at life on the home front in new Family in Wartime exhibition
A selection of interviews, pictures and everyday artefacts at the IWM follow the lives of the Allpress family who lived in South London during the Second World War.
