Industrial Heritage
Hawley Collection shows industrial past of Sheffield at Kelham Island Museum
A vast collection of more than 100,000 tools, artefacts and film will go on display for the first time at Kelham Island Museum in Sheffield after planners won a £595,000 lottery grant.
A celebration of lighthouses at National Maritime Museum Cornwall
A new exhibition at National Maritime Museum Cornwall celebrates the grandeur of lighthouses and explores the lives and stories of the lighthouse keepers who manned them.
Historic Scotland's Stanley Mills wins Sandford Award for Education Provision
A former cotton mill which played a key role in Scotland's Industrial Revolution has been recognised for educational excellence in its first year of opening as a visitor attraction.
Scottish Mining Museum scoops £12,000 Coal Trades Association jackpot
The Scottish Mining Museum is celebrating a £12,600 donation from the the Coal Trades Benevolent Association of Scotland.
Museum of Science and Industry begins £7 million renovation
The Museum of Science and Industry on the site of Britain's oldest railway station in Manchester will be transformed by new construction work that bosses hope will bring in a million visitors a year.
British history archive campaign announces flight-themed 2009 programme
Heritage body the National Council on Archives has announced a theme of Take Flight for the sixth year of the Archive Awareness Campaign, a nationwide programme of events revealing some of the...
Scottish Football Museum, Glasgow School of Art and North Lanarkshire Council win Recognition prestige
The collection held by the Scottish Football Museum at Hampden Park, Glasgow School of Art's archive of Charles Rennie Mackintosh artefacts and an historic collection in North Lanarkshire have won...
Heritage Open Days launches in Brighton with community history project
Britain's biggest and most diverse annual celebration of architecture, history and culture, Heritage Open Days 2009, has been officially launched in Brighton and Hove, with the help of an innovative...
Explore industrial history with Made in Birmingham at Centenary Square
Birmingham's vibrant industrial past is brought to life with an outdoor photographic exhibition in Centenary Square.
Locomotion Workshop finishes restoration of Sans Pareil loco
The Conservation Workshop team at Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon have unveiled their latest project – the cosmetic restoration of the 1979 replica of Timothy Hackworth's Sans...
Hull trawler joins ss Great Britain and Royal Yacht on Historic Ships Register
Arctic Corsair, Hull's last sidewinder trawler, is now listed on the National Register of Historic Vessels after volunteers worked hard to preserve her.
St David's Day joy for St Fagans Museum as HLF reveals funding hat-trick
St Fagans open air museum, Halifax's Piece Hall and new galleries at the Science Museum are the latest heritage projects to win financial backing from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
National Railway Museum reveals extent of Flying Scotsman restoration
The National Railway Museum in York has revealed its restoration of the Flying Scotsman and the exciting developments the Museum and public have to look forward to.
£10 million Hull History Centre ready for opening as final archives arrive
The final boxes of a 28,000-strong haul have arrived at the "fantastic" new Hull History Centre, which is set to open later this month following a two-year, £10 million building project.
Frank Auerbach and London's post-Blitz resurrection at the Courtauld Gallery
Artist Frank Auerbach captured the birth of a new London with a series of daring sketches of the skeletal city between 1952 and 1962. Alex Hopkins witnesses some rarely-seen oil masterpieces at the...
