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    • Resource: Digitised collection, Handling collection or artefacts, Taught session (schools), Worksheets or templates, Workshop or activity session County: Oxfordshire A City at War!
      Museum of Oxford
      Museum of Oxford
    • A close-up photo of a small exotic blue and red fish swimming through a clear river
      Article: Preview Amazon Voyage: Vicious Fishes and Other Riches at the Horniman Museum
      Stingrays, tetras, sculpted anaconda, replica eel stings, pink dolphins, piranhas and a chance to stick your hand in a tank of rotten leaves - the Horniman's next show is exotic.
      14 January 2013
    • A photograph of the sea and jagged rocks
      Article: News Artists in residence wanted for St Kilda
      The National Trust for Scotland and Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre are offering two artists the chance to live on the remote archipelago of St Kilda this summer.
      10 April 2013
    • Article: Trail Birmingham's Canal Network - In Brindley's Footsteps
      Roslyn Tappenden takes a walk round the canal networks in central Birmingham and looks at the history of Brindley, Telford and the building of the city's canal network.
      05 August 2004
    • Venue: Historic house or home County: Derbyshire Bolsover Cundy House Bolsover
    • Article: Trail Britain's Finest Ancient Monuments
    • a still from jane eyre film of a woman in a bonnet and shawl stood in the rural countryside
      Article: Preview Brontë Museum launches summer programme with display of costumes from Jane Eyre
      The Haworth haven will host a series of exhibitions and events, including a chance to see the Oscar-nominated costumes from the 2011 film.
      08 June 2012
    • Resource: Online game or interactive County: Cornwall Build a Boat
      National Maritime Museum Cornwall, Falmouth
      National Maritime Museum Cornwall | Falmouth
    • Venue: Heritage site County: Derbyshire Chatsworth Bakewell
    • shows a photograph of a statue of Queen Victoria holding an orb and sceptre, behind her looms a large Victorian council building.
      Article: Trail Children's Express: Whenever I Say I'm From Birmingham
      Children's Express journalist Jon Hudson explains that no matter who you are or where you are from, you won't feel out of place in Birmingham.
      07 September 2004
    • Article: Trail Community Focus: The Monken Hadley Trail
      The 'My Life-Our Heritage' project has researched and authored several trails within the London Borough of Barnet. Locations were selected because of their accessibility to wheelchair users and elderly people. This trail, an exploration of Monken Hadley in North London is the * to be featured on the London City Heritage Guide.
      09 March 2004
    • Article: Trail Community Focus Trail: Friern Barnet Lane
      The 'My Life-Our Heritage' project has researched and authored several trails within the London Borough of Barnet. Locations were selected because of their accessibility to wheelchair users and elderly people. This trail, an exploration of Friern Barnet Lane in North London is the second to be featured on the London City Heritage Guide.
      13 December 2004
    • Article: Trail Community Focus Trail: Wood Street (Chipping Barnet)
      The 'My Life-Our Heritage' project has researched and authored several trails within the London Borough of Barnet. Locations were selected because of their accessibility to wheelchair users and elderly people. This trail, an exploration of Chipping Barnet in North London is the * to be featured on the London City Heritage Guide.
    • Venue: Industrial heritage site County: Cornwall Cotehele Mill (National Trust) Saltash
    • Venue: Industrial heritage site County: West Sussex Coultershaw Water Pump Petworth
    • A photo of a wasp suspended in a yellow solution
      Article: Preview 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.
      01 May 2013
    • A photo of a bird among reeds with brown feathers, a green face and a long thin beak
      Article: Feature 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.
      15 March 2013
    • A photo of a man looking at dinosaur bones
      Article: Feature Curator's Choice: Will Watts introduces the Scarborough Speeton plesiosaur
      Scarborough Museums' Will Watts recalls a bitterly cold, ten-day excavation on a North Yorkshire beach which plugged a gap of around 60 million years.
      26 April 2013
    • Article: Trail D-Day 60th Anniversary: Normandy 60 Years On
      We finish our series of features marking the 60th anniversary of D-Day with a look at some of the locations and museums in Normandy today.
      04 June 2004
    • a photograph of a cityscape with a church in the background and a futuristic silver building in the foreground
      Article: Trail Discovering St Martins In the Bullring
      Michelle Wright explores St. Martin’s Church, a historic landmark of the UK's second city wedged into the centre of modern Birmingham.
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