Family History
Harrogate for Health and Happiness: A 20th Century Spa Town at the Pump Room Museum
The history of Harrogate as a spa town in the 20th century is explored via archive film, photographs, objects and memories in a fascinating new exhibition at the Royal Pump Rooms.
Photographer Nigel Green surveys post-war Picardy in Reconstruction at UCA Canterbury
Combining his grounding in fine art and skill as an architectural photographer, Nigel Green contemplates the styles used to rebuild a French region.
The National Museum of Computing enjoys tablet resurrection of BBC Domesday Project
25 years after the BBC launched the Domesday Project to digitise public photos and text mapping out the UK, the Bletchley Park venue plays host to Domesday Reloaded.
Britain's first Gaelic museum is to open in Stornoway thanks to lottery funding
The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced today that it is investing £4.6 million to restore Lews Castle in Stornoway as a museum, archive and hotel.
Plans to "re-energise" Northampton Museum and Art Gallery go on display to the public
Wide-ranging improvements designed to turn Northampton's museum into a "big city" venue have gone on show in a project which is expected to be completed in 2012.
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.
In her own Words: Project Manager Carrie Blogg on the new Museum of Somerset
In the aftermath of the opening of the Taunton Castle centre, we get the inside track on why Somerset's £6.9 million attraction is one of the best new museums in the UK.
Wales Breaks its Silence...From Memories to Memorial at the National Waterfront Museum
The hidden stories of the Welsh-Italians on a boat torpedoed while travelling between the UK and detainment in Canada in 1940 makes for a moving show in Swansea.
The story of playwright and controversial priest Bernard Walke at St Hilary Heritage Centre
Ralph Gifford talks to Lesley Michell of St Hilary Heritage Centre about the life and work of Bernard Walke, the priest and playwright whose church nativity plays were broadcast by the BBC in the......
Ways of Looking aims for Berlin and Bienniale feel in inaugural Bradford photography festival
Douglas Gordon, Jeremy Deller and Donovan Wylie headline the boutique Bradford festival full of exhibitions, events and trails based on a theme of Evidence.
Archives of England's oldest swimming club unearthed in Brighton library
Artefacts dating back to the 1860s go on display at Brighton's Jubilee Library, examining the heritage of the Brighton Swimming Club.
Pair of lectures to mark 350th anniversary of Falmouth at National Maritime Museum Cornwall
Expert David Barnicot will reveal some of the events which shaped Falmouth's history and reminisce with the help of ancient photos in two talks at the NMMC.
Isle of Man wanderers around the world offer Oseberg Viking ship to Manx National Heritage
The World Manx Association has gifted a Dubai-built model of a Viking ship found in Oslo more than 1,000 years ago to the Isle's heritage team.
Cornish rowing revolutionary Ann Glanville is a local hero at Saltash Heritage Centre
Ralph Gifford reveals the remarkable story of a Cornish woman who had 14 children, ran a ferry, led rowing crews to victories across the world and remains a hero in Saltash.
