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Dozens of cultural institutions across the country will help the inaugural Shakespeare Week inspire millions of people when it launches in March 2014.

The Haworth haven will host a series of exhibitions and events, including a chance to see the Oscar-nominated costumes from the 2011 film.

Rare objects from some of the world’s oldest crafts and guilds will feature in an exhibition, Butcher, Baker, Candlestick-maker, exploring the rituals of livery company life.

Focusing on the everyday and domestic rather than gladiators and emperors, the British Museum's new show calls upon ghosts preserved by volcanic carbonisation.

Fifty years after Dr Beeching's hugely controversial report ordered widespread cuts to the British railway network, artist Esther Johnson's filmic insight into the effect it had on the Borders is part of a season of events at the York museum.

Jenni Davidson takes a look at Medieval masterpieces among an exhibition which spans the bookshelves of 300 years of English kings and queens from a collection founded by Edward IV.

The enigmatic singer and author was on hand to launch an impressive new centre in the West Yorkshire city of Wakefield, complete with a museum and 60,000 books.

Taken from Anglo-Spanish historical resources, Cambridge University Library's new show features bandits, murderers, inmates and a gossip-hungry public.