The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced details of a new £6 million small grants programme for smaller community projects marking the Centenary of the First World War.

A pigeon who survived attacks from hawks and bombs and a messenger dog who saved a city are a couple of the stories in an animalistic new show in London.

Marc Wilson's project to photograph World War II defences has resulted in a thought-provoking series of ethereal "documentary landscapes" at Fort Nelson.

The Imperial War Museum has announced its programme for its partial reopening at the end of July, returning after a closure of more than six-months.

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.

Imperial War Museum Duxford begins its 70th anniversary commemoration of the Americans arriving at RAF Duxford with an exhibition of photos.

The Royal Engineers Museum in Chatham is inviting the public to explore the 80% of its collection which lies hidden within what it mysteriously terms the Eighth Corridor.

A series of fascinating linked exhibitions exploring the impact of war on the country house and its communities goes on show throughout Yorkshire in 2013 and 2014.

Imperial War Museum North commemorates the tenth anniversary of the war in Iraq with images revealing the complex relationship between military and civilian communities.

A debate as complicated as any conflict has broken out on the National Army Museum's website, where visitors are being asked to pick Britain's most significant conflict.

The Florence Nightingale Museum has acquired a series of ten oil paintings by Victor Tardieu showing the WWI Red Cross field hospital run by Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland.

David Cundall has pledged to continue his quest to find Spitfires buried in crates in Burma, despite his main sponsor pulling out after an initial dig at an airfield.

Having matched DNA from the skeleton with descendents of Richard III, experts say they have proved "beyond reasonable doubt" that the skeleton is that of the King.

Ahead of a Portsmouth Historic Dockyard exhibition in 2014 telling the story of the Royal Navy, organisers want to hear about a colonial force established for 16 years.

The Imperial War Museum has released two hard-hitting digital exhibitions via Google's virtual museum, Cultural Institute, for Holocaust Memorial Day.

The team searching for dozens of Spitfires thought to have been buried in Burma after World War II have arrived at the Yangon International Airport site.

HMS Caroline, the most historically significant First World War battleship in the world, is to undergo urgent repair work thanks to £1million from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.

A £600,000 fundraising appeal - match-funded by the Government of Flanders - will use soil from the Belgian battlefields of World War I to create a "haven of remembrance".

Led by a Lincolnshire aviation enthusiast, an expedition to Burma is expected to excavate as many as 36 Spitfire fighter planes buried in crates during World War II.

Experts say a lack of "vital information" has prevented them from deciphering a message found near the skeleton of a World War II carrier pigeon in a chimney in Surrey.

The Royal Air Force Museum London is asking members of the public to choose objects from its archives for a new permanent exhibition.

James Conway was a 20-year-old from Stockport who was part of a top-secret mission involving a 70-mile darkened row to France in 1942. A new display tells his story.

From the mud of Flanders in 1917 to the dust of modern Afghanistan, the Imperial War Museum explores the world of frontline medicine.

A series of evocative "then and now" photographs are bringing visitors face to face with the past at the former Bomber Command base at Yorkshire Air Museum.

After being held at various Ministry of Defence bases since World War II, an enormous V-2 rocket has been restored and put on show at the Royal Engineers Museum.

Second World War destroyer HMS Cavalier will fire three rounds from her 4.5-inch guns as part of the Salute to the '40s weekend event at the Kent landmark.

HMS Belfast is to be transformed into a large sound and percussive instrument this weekend for Scharnhorst; a musical performance for the Thames Festival.

A rare surviving example of one of Hitler’s infamous V-2 rockets is to be restored, re-assembled and displayed at the Royal Engineers Museum Library and Archive.

The National Trust has launched a £1.2 million appeal to secure the last remaining mile of the world famous White Cliffs of Dover in Kent.

The National Archives has teamed up with Wikimedia UK to digitise hundreds of rarely seen images from its Word War Two art and poster collection.

Heritage Lottery Fund awards result in a new centre dedicated to the 17th century Civil Wars in Nottinghamshire and improvements to Hexham Abbey in Northumberland.

Rooted in the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War, the display mixes landscape imagery with testimonies from both British and Argentine veterans who fought in the conflict.

The National Army Museum is displaying the Queen’s ATS Brigadier uniform as part of a Jubilee exhibition surveying the wider role of the Monarch and the armed services.

More than 400,000 resources from World War I will be made available to the public online as part of an ambitious alliance to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the conflict.

70 years after the Battle of Britain, curator David Coxon reveals the poignant story behind a relic Hurricane fighter aircraft.

Carl Warner of Imperial War Museum Duxford explains his love of Hangar 4; a building with a long and hidden history.

November 2009 saw 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, effectively ending the tense, nuclear-driven animosity of the Cold War period. Culture24 explored some of the best places in the UK to explore the 40-year conflict.

As part of Culture24's exploration of the Designated collection at the Royal Engineers Museum, Director Richard Dunn reveals his 'Curator's Choice'; the Brennan torpedo.

Head Curator Rebecca Nash and Director Richard Dunn of the Royal Engineers Museum talk about a prized item in their Designated collection; the map used by Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo.

Matthew Sheldon of the Royal Naval Museum talks about a rare scrimshaw that once belonged to an African sailor who helped in the Royal Navy's fight against the transatlantic slave trade.

Siba Matti discusses Said Adrus' exhibition at the Woking Ligthbox Gallery which featured photographs, water colours and archive footage tracing the forgotten history of Asians in war, migration and Empire. He then explores the history of Muslims in Woking and the various special sites in the area which recall these memories.

A trail developed for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender History Month that looks at where to find and search for lesbian histories in archives in England and Wales.

A tour of the National Portrait Gallery showing eighteenth century sitters with disabilities including John Wilkes, Samuel Johnson, and Handel.

The Blitz in Manchester is still a clear memory for John Hackett, who has sent in this reminiscence of the Second World War, when he was growing up, using Storymaker.

Take a look at fascinating objects in London museums. As featured in the BBC series People's Museum.

Afghani oral histories collected from refugees now living in London by the Evelyn Oldfield Unit.

Discover fascinating objects in the museums of Northern Ireland. As featured in the BBC series People's Museum.

Discover fascinating objects in the museums of Scotland. As featured in the BBC series People's Museum.

The People's Museum - take a look at some intriguing objects found in the museums of the East of England. As featured in the BBC series People's Museum.

Discover fascinating objects in the museums of Oxford. As featured in the BBC series People's Museum.