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The FA Cup, Connect 4, Wombles and Bee Gees star in Silver 70s at Leeds City Museum
Travel back in time as Leeds celebrates the decade of the Raleigh Chopper, David Bowie, the Silver Jubilee and an FA Cup win for Leeds United.
Red House Museum in Christchurch to host Forgotten Roman Emperor and Together shows
Screens tell the dastardly stories of late 3rd century Roman Britain, accompanied by works from an award-winning local wood sculpture and ethereal painting duo.
Bygone adverts prove So Near and yet so Far at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro
Guinness for vitality, Oxo for strength, cigarettes for a sore throat and tonic wine for your nerves - a show of 1920s adverts in Cornwall makes some entertaining claims.
Human history “time capsule” revealed after 20-year investigation on South Uist
Archaeologists working on the Hebridean Island of South Uist say they have amassed a “treasure trove” of new knowledge from buried settlements.
William Morris: Story, Memory, Myth at Two Temple Place
Combining works from the currently-closed William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow and notable pieces from private collections, an exhibition on the 19th century pattern pioneer goes some way to......
Emmy Award winners worn in hit BBC series The Tudors to return to Mary Rose Museum
Joan Bergin's designs for the likes of Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Joss Stone in the BBC series go back on display in Portsmouth as part of a show of support for rebuild plans.
Iron Age Capel Garmon Firedog from 2,000 years ago secured by National Museums Wales
A firedog owned by an Iron Age chieftain, elaborately shaped from 85 separate pieces, has been given to Welsh museum leaders as part of the Acceptance in Lieu scheme.
A Hankering After Ghosts: British Library's Charles Dickens and the Supernatural
To mark the bicentenary of his birth, the British Library in London goes beyond A Christmas Carol for a new exhibition on Charles Dickens, the supernatural and the macabre.
Amateur archaeologists discover 7th century building within Yorkshire Dales National Park
Radiocarbon tests have revealed that a two-room stone building discovered in the Ribblesdale area dates from the historically mysterious "Dark Ages".
In Pictures: The new Ancient Egypt and Nubia galleries at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum
Mummies and tombs aplenty as we go inside the amazing new galleries which have made the Ashmolean one of the finest Egyptology museums in the world.
Yorkshire Museum bids to save first Iron Age bracelets ever found in north of England
A pair of all-gold torcs believed to have belonged to prominent members of a ruling Yorkshire tribe more than 2,000 years ago are at the centre of a £60,000 fundraising drive.
City Recorder: Alasdair Gray's drawings for the People's Palace go on display in Glasgow
In 1977, Lanark author Alasdair Gray created a series of artworks portraying Glasgow. They are brought together for a new exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow.
Archive discovery brings colourful life of Shakespeare's rival Ben Jonson into focus
As new Hollywood Shakespeare movie Anonymous ignites debate about the Bard's plays, an archive discovery shines more light on the life of his contemporary Ben Jonson.
Culture24 On The Trail Of...Pirates
Did pirates really have wooden legs and parrots? Find out with Culture24's trail of places to visit in Britain associated with pirates, both historical and fictional.
Parliament Week Curator's Choice: The Magna Carta at the British Library
In her own Words...Dr Claire Breay Lead Curator of Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts at the British Library tells us why the Magna Carta is such a powerful piece of British history.
