Culture24/History & Heritage

Culture24's top ten re-enactment and living history events for summer 2013

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Check out the top ten re-enactment and living history events happening at museums and heritage sites cross the UK during summer 2013.

In Pictures: No 1 Royal Crescent is back in Bath

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

One of the country's best examples of late Georgian architecture has reopened following an eight-month, £5 million project which has reunited its buildings.

Count Duckula's Igor the Butler back on disapproving form for MOSI animation display

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Rescued from the skip in 2010, a statue of a cult cartoon character will stand at the entrance to a summer show in Manchester following careful surgery on his severed limbs.

Swan Upping brings 900 years of royal tradition to the River and Rowing Museum

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Clad in the Queen's uniform, a group of rowers will monitor swans as part of an ancient tradition on the Thames this month. An exhibition devoted to them explains more.

Artists respond to Benjamin Britten centenary at Aldeburgh Festival

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Cerith Wyn Evans and Maggi Hambling are among 16 artists responding to the centenary of composer Benjamin Britten's birth in Suffolk. We take a look at some of them.

Curator's Choice: The raciness, modesty and nudity of bygone British bathing beauties

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Karen Snowden, of Scarborough Museums Trust, explains why bathing costumes have sparked fashion trends and controversy across the centuries.

"Supremely important" Stradivarius show reveals the secrets at the Ashmolean in Oxford

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Made by the Italian craftsman during the late 17th and early 18th century, an alluring new exhibition features 20 of the finest string instruments ever made.

RAF Museum's delight as World War II Dornier 17 bomber is rescued

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The German bomber at the centre of the RAF Museum's delicate, frequently-thwarted underwater excavation has been raised with its wings and engines intact off the coast of Kent.

First World War Centenary Partnership of national and international partners tops 1,000

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The Imperial War Museum-led network of organisations marking the centenary of the First World War between 2014 and 2018 has reached more than 1,000 members.

Government reveals detailed plans to mark 100 years since beginning of First World War in 2014

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Educational battlefield visits for schoolchildren, a series of candlelit vigils marking the outbreak of war in 1914 and funding for local community projects will be at the centre of the government's commemoration of the First World War.

A home for history: Sneak preview of Brighton and Hove's new £19 million Keep archive

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Two years after construction work began, archivists have been given the keys to an impressive new community resource in Sussex. Duncan Andrews takes a look.

First Time Out: Ancient dishes, Chinese puzzles, bone guillotine and the earliest lightbulb

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

In the second part of our series on the exhibit swap going on between ten venues, we get the inside track on amazing artefacts including the earliest lamp.

RAF Museum hopeful as Dornier 17 World War II excavation is narrowly foiled by winds

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Archaeologists say they came "within 40 minutes" of raising the German plane on the Kent seabed on Sunday, and remain hopeful of completing the lift within 24 hours.

First Time Out: From baubles to masks, museums and galleries swap ten treats

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The Royal Shakespeare Company and the Natural History Museum are among ten venues swapping and re-interpreting weird and wonderful exhibits this summer.

Science Museum Group outlines "real threat" to three science museums in the north

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Ahead of an expected 10% budget cut in this month's spending review, leaders say a £6 million annual deficit could cause one of the north's popular science museums to close.

Hidden intaglio provides vital clues in story of The Cheapside Hoard: London's Lost Jewels

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

A gemstone bearing the heraldic badge of a Viscount has allowed curators to put dates to artefacts ahead of a major exhibition at the Museum of London.

William Morris Gallery enjoys "breathtaking" Art Fund Museum of Year win

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Putting the new-look gallery at the centre of regeneration plans for Waltham Forest, planners say they will make a "real, tangible difference" with the £100,000 flagship museum prize.

Picturing Derry unites photography from The Troubles in City of Culture 2013 show

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Covering the turbulent period between the late 1960s and late 1980s in Derry-Londonderry, a major display of shots by Irish and international photographers in the City of Culture has intense local significance.

Richard White and Ali Pretty team up with Wiltshire Museum to Walk the White Horses

Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Artists Ali Pretty and Richard White work with the Wiltshire Museum and Devizes Outdoor Celebratory Arts to produce a unique experience of Wiltshire’s chalk hillsides.

The Culture24/7: History and Heritage highlights for June 2013

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Death in the Potteries, swimwear in Glasgow, Mary Queen of Scots in Edinburgh and the reopening of a £5 million Georgian mansion in Bath. Here are our history picks.