Family History
Family history and geneaology: explore it here with exhibitions, event listings, features, news and web resources collected from museums, archives and historic sites across the UK.
Museums at Night Report: A Victorian Delight at London's 18 Stafford Terrace
Museums at Night created a rare chance to sneak inside a 19th century London house, complete with waiting Victorian residents. Richard Moss went to take a look.
The Games We Played: Childhood Board and Card Games celebrated at Mansfield Museum
Mansfield Museum is revisiting the games of Christmas past with an entertaining trawl through some classic and not-so-classic board games dating from the 1920s to the 1970s.
Curator's Choice: Five Cornish miners from the Cornish Global Migration Programme
Michael Kiernan, Director of the Cornish Global Migration Programme in Redruth, relates five of his favourite stories about Cornish miners, migrants, murderers and divorcees.
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.
First World War digitisation project launches in UK as crowds flock to museum roadshow
The British leg of a European-wide project to digitise family First World War collections is underway after a successful roadshow at the Museum of Lancashire in Preston.
European World War I digitisation project launches in UK with Lancashire Museum roadshow
A bold project to preserve and digitise previously unseen family stories and objects relating to the First World War kicks off with a roadshow at the Museum of Lancashire in March.
From Thomas Gainsborough to Tracey Emin: The Family in British Art at Millennium Gallery
Works by Martin Parr, Stanley Spencer, William Hogarth, Tracey Emin and Rachel Whiteread featuring among more than 65 pieces in a new show in Sheffield.
From Cornwall to Manchester, Kids in Museums Takeover Day 2011 is an "amazing experience"
Children have planned new exhibitions, devised craft workshops, produced signs and swarmed through galleries in disguise in the Children's Commissioner's Takeover Day.
50,000 children expected to take part in Children's Commissioner's Takeover Day 2011
For one day only, in the fifth year of the national Takeover Day, children across the country will take over museums, galleries and venues and implement their ideas.
Ten Documents of Cornwall: A history of a County at Cornwall Record Office
As part of its Heritage Open Days weekend Cornwall Record Office compiled a list of documents and themes that represent an overview of Cornish life and history.
Museums at Night 2012: Your guide to ghost tours, grisly tales and murder mysteries
Cultural venues like nothing more than frightening us half to death with tales of ghosts, ghouls and other mysterious spectres of the night so here’s a roundup of some top spooky comings and goings ......
Manchester Chinese Archive unveiled
A first-ever Chinese Archive has been added to Manchester City Archives, following a year-long project between Manchester Chinese Centre, Manchester City Council and MOSI.
Passion through the Post: Looking at Valentine's Day in the Archives
A timely browse through cards and correspondence in two of the UK’s archives reveals how little the day of love has changed over the years.
German alliance sees Oxford University's Great War Archive embark on a European pilgrimage
Oxford University is taking its Great War Archive into Europe after signing an agreement with the German National Library.
Public to witness the story of a community in Broadwater Farm Community Centre exhibition
The story of Broadwater Farm Estate in North London is told in a new exhibition inside Broadwater Farm Community Centre.
