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    • photo of tall and thin slabs of standing stone in a circle
      Article: Trail A trail around UK standing stones and burial chambers
      With the summer solstice once again upon us now is a good time to visit the UK's many mysterious megalithic monuments.
      21 December 2008
    • Abington Park Museum
      Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: Northamptonshire Abington and the Last of the Shakespeares
      A major new exhibition about the life of Abington Park Museum- its history as a manor house and home of the last ancestor of William Shakespeare, as an asylum and its most recent transformation into a well-loved museum.
      Abington Park Museum | Northampton | 18 May — 31 October 2013
      Tags: BBC Hands on History
    • The Great Hall
      Venue: Heritage site, Museum, Gallery, Historic house or home, Garden, parklands or rural site County: Oxfordshire Blenheim Palace Woodstock
    • Article: Trail Britain's Finest Ancient Monuments
    • Event County: Cheshire Coffee Morning and Memories! My Primitive Methodist Ancestors
      Do you have photos or memories to share? We would love to record your memories, and scan your photos, for others to enjoy. Would you like to know more about how to add your own pages to our community archive website?...
      Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum | Crewe | 20 July 2013
    • a black and white photo of men and women outside a tin roofed house with a porch and veranda
      Article: Interview Curator's Choice: Five Cornish miners from the Cornish Global Migration Programme
      Michael Kiernan, Director of the Cornish Global Migration Programme in Redruth, relates five of his favourite stories about Cornish miners, migrants, murderers and divorcees.
      29 May 2012
    • Venue: Library County: Merthyr Tydfil Dowlais Library Merthyr Tydfil
    • view across the mere
      Venue: Garden, parklands or rural site, Museum, Prehistoric site County: Cambridgeshire Flag Fen Archaeology Park Peterborough
    • a composite photograph of portraits of Fisst World War servicemen
      Website Flickr site: Imperial War Museum's Faces of the First World War
    • Family History
      Event: Workshop or activity session County: Greater London Focus on Family History at London Metropolitan Archives
      Come along to this workshop and learn how to get the most out of digitised family history sources, including our records on Ancestry.co.uk. This workshop is aimed at beginners.
      London Metropolitan Archives | 28 August 2013
      Tags: BBC Hands on History
    • Family History
      Event: Workshop or activity session County: Greater London Focus on Family History at London Metropolitan Archives
      Come along to this workshop and learn how to get the most out of digitised family history sources, including our records on Ancestry.co.uk. This workshop is aimed at beginners.
      London Metropolitan Archives | 22 May 2013
      Tags: BBC Hands on History
    • Family History
      Event: Workshop or activity session County: Greater London Focus on Family History at London Metropolitan Archives
      Come along to this workshop and learn how to get the most out of digitised family history sources, including our records on Ancestry.co.uk. This workshop is aimed at beginners.
      London Metropolitan Archives | 12 June 2013
      Tags: BBC Hands on History
    • Family History
      Event: Workshop or activity session County: Greater London Focus on Family History at London Metropolitan Archives
      Come along to this workshop and learn how to get the most out of digitised family history sources, including our records on Ancestry.co.uk. This workshop is aimed at beginners.
      London Metropolitan Archives | 26 June 2013
      Tags: BBC Hands on History
    • Family History
      Event: Workshop or activity session County: Greater London Focus on Family History at London Metropolitan Archives
      Come along to this workshop and learn how to get the most out of digitised family history sources, including our records on Ancestry.co.uk. This workshop is aimed at beginners.
      London Metropolitan Archives | 10 July 2013
      Tags: BBC Hands on History
    • Family History
      Event: Workshop or activity session County: Greater London Focus on Family History at London Metropolitan Archives
      Come along to this workshop and learn how to get the most out of digitised family history sources, including our records on Ancestry.co.uk. This workshop is aimed at beginners.
      London Metropolitan Archives | 24 July 2013
      Tags: BBC Hands on History
    • Family History
      Event: Workshop or activity session County: Greater London Focus on Family History at London Metropolitan Archives
      Come along to this workshop and learn how to get the most out of digitised family history sources, including our records on Ancestry.co.uk. This workshop is aimed at beginners.
      London Metropolitan Archives | 14 August 2013
      Tags: BBC Hands on History
    • Venue: Archive County: Greater London Hammersmith & Fulham Archives and Local History Centre London
    • This is a historic house open for tours and venue hire
      Venue: Castle or defences, Historic house or home, Garden, parklands or rural site, Heritage site County: Lancashire Hoghton Tower Preservation Trust Hoghton
    • a photo of a calcified dog from Pompeii
      Article: Preview Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum opens at the British Museum in London
      Focusing on the everyday and domestic rather than gladiators and emperors, the British Museum's new show calls upon ghosts preserved by volcanic carbonisation.
      28 March 2013
    • Nasty Northampton cartoon
      Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: Northamptonshire Nasty Northampton
      Join our tour guide Lucius Verus for a gruesome exploration of Northampton’s history looking at the bloodthirsty, disgusting, weird and hilarious events of the past two thousand years. This interactive exhibition will ...
      Northampton Museum & Art Gallery | 13 July — 8 September 2013
      Tags: BBC Hands on History
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