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.

Barbara Windsor, Rob da Bank, Joely Richardson and Tony Robinson are among a cast of 40 well-known Londoners to describe their favourite sites across the capital.

Museums at Night created a rare chance to sneak inside a 19th century London house, complete with waiting Victorian residents. Richard Moss went to take a look.

A major new gallery celebrating the life of Admiral Lord Nelson and his influence on the Royal Navy and British society during the 18th century is to open in October 2013.

From Alice in Wonderland and the characters of JRR Tolkein to Harry Potter and Abracadabra, the new exhibition at New Walk is a fairytale one.

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.

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

Representing a collaborative effort between curators in Belper, Buxton and Derby, a new exhibition features some inspiring examples from Derbyshire's creative history.

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

A £13,000 pistol-concealing pen, presented to the late Maharaja Hanwant Singh of Marwar-Jodhpur by royal family cohort Lord Louis, could go on public show.

Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone was born in March 2013 in Blantyre, near Glasgow. Events across Scotland and Africa celebrate his life and legacy.

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.

Mini-museums, a sound collection and hundreds of objects united for the first time in an exhibition linking objects donated by the public across 16 years.

A gold body cast of Olympic gymnast and primetime television twirler Beth Tweddle, will be officially unveiled at the Museum of Liverpool this week.

Maps of 16th century Muscovy, bespoke designs for Henry VIII, French and British silvers and diplomatic chariots - it's all in the V&A's perfectly polished new exhibition.

Following the discovery of Richard III's body, an exhibition looking at the evidence and methods behind the search - including a recreation of his skull - is proving popular.

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.

Stories of eighteenth century women who left their babies with poignant tokens at London children's home, the Foundling Hospital, are revealed at the Foundling Museum.

A brewery building is expected to become a nationally significant visual arts venue and an important community centre in Leeds after winning £225,000 in funding.

Portraits by the likes of George Cruikshank and Thomas Rowlandson join newspaper cuttings from the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the London, Sugar and Slavery gallery.

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.

A Halloween special Curator's Choice sees Graham King of the Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle, Cornwall explain the strange allure of Cecil Williamson’s Dark Mirror.

Jamie Maddison continues his journey across the Mining Heritage Landscape of Cornwall by following an audio trail that uncovers the story of Botallack Mine, St Just.

The National Portrait Gallery has acquired a marble bust by Joseph Wilton of a key English radical of the 18th century who passionately supported the American Revolution.

Jamie Maddison downloads an audio trail from Cornish Mining World Heritage to step back in time amidst the engine houses of the Basset Mines.

As part of the London 2012 Paralympic Flame Festival celebration, Stoke Mandeville tells the story of the Paralympic Movement from 1948 to modern day.

Using remixed video footage from online contributors, artist Dave Griffiths has created Babel Fiche, an archive to help future generations understand current times.

Jamie Maddison takes an audio tour round Tavistock with the help of a podcast developed by Cornish Mining World Heritage.

An International Olympic Committee commission sees artists from around the world reflect on the Olympic values in film works showing in Bexhill and Manchester.

Aleksandra Mir and John Gerrard are among nine artists proposing an alternative to the sporting summer of 2012 at the South London Gallery.

Vikings are on the rampage and there's the clang of metal and the heat of fire among the Culture24/7 history and heritage picks for August 2012.

Tweeters living or working in the capital are helping to document what life is like in the city during the Olympics for a collection to be preserved at the Museum of London.

Ruth Hazard visits Kettle's Yard House in Cambridge and discovers a place where visitors are free to nose around, slouch in the armchairs, read books in the library and enjoy an extensive collection of contemporary art.

Part of the London 2012 festival, the Gallery's largest ever commission features an array of faces working on the Olympic games, including Boris Johnson and Mark Cavendish.

Nine charity boxes bearing the snappy slogan "Board of Guardians for the Relief of Jewish Poor of Manchester” have been found under rubble next to the city's Jewish Museum.

Jamie Maddison visits Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum and Parkland and to find reminders of Cornwall's mining heritage amid the popular industrial museum's clay pits, heritage buildings and parkland.

Artist Graham Dean has visited Olympic and Paralympic training camps to make studies of athletes, then converted them into large-scale watercolours for display.

A fantastic new three-storey museum with remains of Roman Baths and an enormous ground floor mosaic await visitors to Chichester when a new £7 million museum opens in the Sussex city on Sunday.

A small late-medieval house from Haverfordwest is the latest building to be re-erected at the site in Cardiff, 30 years after it was originally dismantled.

To coincide with the London Olympic Games, an exhibition in Sussex features four newly commissioned artworks looking at how athletes achieve sporting prowess.

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.

A new community exhibition at the Royal Engineers Museum in Chatham explores how the military and civilian populations have co-existed for more than 200 years.

The Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey reveals its first non-Watts exhibition with a thrilling exploration of paintings inspired by the work of Charles Dickens.

The countdown to a Scottish part of the Cultural Olympiad has begun with the arrival of the Olympic flame at a football pitch in the heart of a Selkirk forest.

A museum in Surrey which has been making kids and family visits a top priority since it opened in 1888 has won the Daily Telegraph Family Friendly Museum Award.

Michael Kiernan, Director of the Cornish Global Migration Programme in Redruth, relates five of his favourite stories about Cornish miners, migrants, murderers and divorcees.

From origins as a Butler's Quarter to a key part of top-secret wartime surveillance, the post office at Bletchley Park is an intriguing place. Its latest guise recalls its former purpose.

Read our Curator's Choice as the British Library's £9 million fundraising campaign to secure the St Cuthbert Gospel succeeds.

Jamie Maddison begins his discovery of some of the fascinating mining heritage sites that litter the landscape of Cornwall by exploring the area around Camborne and Redruth.

As referendum fever rages in Scotland and hits the UK national news, the Museum of Edinburgh presents a retrospective of the two previous referendums in 1979 and 1997 with a selection of materials from its own collections and the Scottish Political Archive in Stirling.