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Sherlock Holmes fans will get a glimpse of a rarely-seen first edition of A Study in Scarlet at Portsmouth City Museum, accompanied by an audio tour voiced by Stephen Fry.

Artists Julie McCarthy and Jai Redman talk about their novel and outdoor sculpture, The Cartland Institute for Romance Research.

A damaged war memorial for Warwickshire and Staffordshire on a site mentioned in the Domesday Book will become a centre for community pride in a three-year heritage project.

The "Creative Economy" - and heritage fans - receive good news as six digital history projects share a £300,000 award linked to the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

As galleries flag up their New Year's offerings, you might not know that in the art world it is still the season of goodwill. Mark Sheerin asks why not.

A first UK survey for American artist Daria Martin features four 16mm films, including the brand new Sensorium Tests, aiming to suggest that objects "can be sentient or animate”.

A tenacious eight-month campaign by the Ashmolean Museum has ended in triumph, raising £7.83 million, turning Oxford into a leading centre for the study of Impressionist painting and allowing one of Manet's most important paintings to tour the nation.

A new vault of "weird s***" in Soho prepares to unveil penis bones carved from human skulls, skeletons, a woolly mammoth tusk and an Ice Age wolf head.

The Bristol ship will be luring visitors to recreate portraits of emigrants to Australia and New Zealand from 160 years ago and try on threads from a specially-made wardrobe.

The Vanity of Small Differences brings insight and empathy around class to the London gallery, as seen on the recent Channel 4 documentary featuring the nation's favourite potter.