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Blooming Marvellous reveals master botanic illustrators at Natural History Museum Tring
Great botanical illustrators from across the centuries, including the artist who made a fateful trip with Captain Cook and important contributors to science, feature in Tring.
Culture24/7: Science and Nature highlights for May 2013
From the Thames and Kew Gardens to Greenland and journeys through the Earth, May is an inspiring month in Science and Nature. Here are a few exhibitions we've spotted.
The Culture24/7: History and Heritage highlights for May 2013
From a Bank Holiday party in Cambridge to the inspiring Museums at Night and the opening of the £27 million Mary Rose Museum, here are our history highlights this month.
Read all About it! Wrongdoing in Spain and England in the Long Nineteenth Century
Taken from Anglo-Spanish historical resources, Cambridge University Library's new show features bandits, murderers, inmates and a gossip-hungry public.
British Army Lynx helicopter flies in to Imperial War Museum Duxford
A British Army helicopter, seen by every soldier taking part in the campaigns during the past 35 years and only retired last year, is now awaiting visitors to Duxford.
Paul Nash, the 1920s and An Outbreak of Talent at the Fry Art Gallery
Paul Nash's description an "outbreak of talent" during his time at the Royal College of Art is explored in a show featuring work by Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, Edward Burra at the Fry.
Letter written by Captain Scott as he lay dying in Antarctic to go on show at Polar Museum
The Scott Polar Research Institute, in Cambridge, has acquired one of Captain Scott's "last letters", buying one of his only dispatches still in private hands for £79,000.
In Pictures: Ten museums compete for the Art Fund Museum of the Year Award 2013
From Hepworth to Pembrokeshir, here's what the ten museum vying for the £100,000 prize have to say for themselves this year.
Science Culture24/7: Seismic stations, liposuction fat and insect eating for April 2013
Bones in Coventry, pests in London, steel science in Sheffield and rumbles and groans in Manchester in our round-up of some Science and Nature highlights this month.
Humphrey Spender's London Photographs at Firstsite Colchester
The works of revered photographer Humphrey Spender, known for capturing social upheaval including mass anti-poverty marches during the 1930s, make for snapshots of everyday life in London more than......
Curator's Choice: Professor Jenny Clack chooses an extraordinary sea-bream bone
The Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the Museum of Zoology explains why a bone from the collection is one of the most extraordinary she's ever seen.
Historic Duxford: Imperial War Museum Duxford tells the long story of an airfield
Imperial War Museum Duxford is preparing to open its first major permanent exhibition since 2007 revealing the history of the airfield and the men and women who served there.
Curator's Choice: Professor Andrew Balmford on the near-mystical Great Bittern reed bird
As part of a guest series from the University of Cambridge, take a look at a reed-dwelling bird which is thriving again after an uncertain few years.
Reptiles and reapers: University of Cambridge Science Festival 2013
Debates on the quest for immortality, the potential energy crisis and the economy of the natural environment form part of the University of Cambridge's annual festival.
The Culture24/7: Festivals and revolutions in Science and Nature for March 2013
Find out about aliens, cholera and sword-swallowing in London, or try Cambridge Science Festival, Space-craft in Glasgow and two exhibitions celebrating female pioneers.
