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News £2.7 million bid to save Pieter Brueghel the Younger's Procession to Calvary ends in triumphA National Heritage Memorial Fund award of more than £1 million keeps the painting at Nostell Priory, capping a three-month campaign.06 January 2011 -
News £6.5 million project to restore HMS Alliance underway at Royal Navy Submarine MuseumHaving won a £3.4 milllion Heritage Lottery Fund grant earlier this year, planners in Gosport have begun the campaign to turn the World War II submarine into a revitalised attraction.07 October 2011 -
News Avro Vulcan and Central Valve Steam Engine honoured with Engineering Heritage AwardsThe Institute of Mechanical Engineers has given top awards to the famous Vulcan aircraft and the engine which powered most of Britain's electricity more than a century ago.30 November 2011 -
News Bodleian Library seals first Jane Austen manuscript at hotly-contested auctionThe correction-littered first draft of Austen’s unfinished The Watsons will become one of the earliest surviving novels on display in Britain as it heads to Oxford.27 July 2011 -
Preview Bones of Oak and Iron: Beneath Victory's Skin at the National Museum of the Royal NavyAs the world's oldest commissioned warship undergoes major restoration works, a new exhibition at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard tells the cosmetic story of HMS Victory.19 September 2011 -
News Britain's first Gaelic museum is to open in Stornoway thanks to lottery fundingThe Heritage Lottery Fund has announced today that it is investing £4.6 million to restore Lews Castle in Stornoway as a museum, archive and hotel.22 November 2011 -
News British Library launches £9 million bid to save the 7th century Gospel of St JohnThe British Library has joined forces with Durham Cathedral and the city's university in a bid to return the earliest surviving intact European book to the region by raising £9 million in eight months.15 July 2011 -
News Conservators get to grips with Tudor paintings as Chichester Cathedral appeal gathers paceConservators begin restoring Chichester Cathedral’s Tudor Paintings as the £250,000 appeal to save them continues.16 February 2011 -
Interview Curator's Choice: Claire Breay on the oldest intact book in Europe found in a Saint's coffinFind out about the 1,300-year-old Latin holy tome which is at the centre of a £9 million campaign by the British Library to save it for the nation.04 October 2011 -
Interview Curator's Choice: Signatures left by Wesleyan Chapel builders at Constantine Heritage CentreTracey Clowes of Constantine Heritage Centre recalls the discovery made when the former Methodist Chapel was being revamped.16 June 2011 -
C24 Feature Curator's Choice: The Roman Frontier Gallery, Tullie HouseKeeper of Archaeology Tim Padley tells us about unscrupulous rebels, rare jugs, the real face of Rome and the planning behind the space.12 July 2011 -
C24 Feature In Pictures: Operation Dynamo at Dover CastleThis Friday, English Heritage will open Operation Dynamo: Rescue from Dunkirk, a major restoration inside the secret tunnels where the World War II evacuation was masterminded. In a picture special, we reveal some of the surprises lying in wait.06 June 2011 -
Interview Parliament Week 2011: Inside Westminster with the Parliamentary Archives' David PriorDavid Prior, who is part of the team looking after the amazing collections held by Parliament, tells us all about what they mean to everyone and how they're looked after.20 October 2011 -
News Restoration at National Trust's Dolmelynllyn Estate reveals UK's biggest beehive wallStaff renovating a National Trust Estate in Wales have uncovered Britain’s biggest bee bole wall.27 May 2011 -
News Stephen Fry and heritage lovers celebrate as Bletchley Park wins £4.6 million HLF awardThe 20-year campaign to turn Buckinghamshire codebreaking centre Bletchley Park into an impressive heritage heartland has been rewarded with a lucrative Lottery windfall.05 October 2011 -
News Stott Mill Engine resurrected after 27-year rebuild by Anson Engine Museum heroesA 60-ton, 250-horsepower steam engine built in 1903 will return to public action for the first time in more than 50 years this weekend thanks to a team of tenacious volunteers.21 September 2011 -
Preview Titanic Drawing Offices Belfast to host final art show before redevelopmentJennifer Morrow, Ciara Mooney and Alastair Curran draw attention to emerging talent in Northern Ireland with an exhibition at the imperilled historic venue.24 November 2011 -
News William Hogarth's House reopens in Chiswick with a little help from Lottery and Dara O'BriainThe idyllic former home of the pioneering 18th century British artist reopens in West London following a three-year restoration costing more than £300,000.14 November 2011
