History news - August 2024
Welcome to history news! A new series from The Creative Historian that highlights some of the history-based news from the past month.
Archaeology
- Roman pottery digs made prisoner 'feel human again' (Wiltshire)
- Mammoth graveyard yields more fossil wonders (Gloucestershire)
- Dig sheds light on Roman history of town (Yorkshire)
- Chalk giant's origins to be explored at conference (Dorset)
- Archaeologists to conclude medieval abbey dig (Dorset)
- Roman shrine found by hillfort archaeologists (Shropshire)
- Gardens offered for landmark archaeological dig (Sussex)
- New find hints Wales fully integrated into Roman Britain (Pembrokeshire)
- Hidden mosaic discovered at Roman site (Shropshire)
- Archaeologists return to 8th Century monastery (Berkshire)
- Tragic shipwreck off Dorset granted special status (Dorset)
- Amateur archaeologists uncover Bronze Age grave (Greater Manchester)
- Lost wreck of WW1 warship found in 'remarkable' condition (Aberdeenshire)
- 'Stunning' burial chamber unearthed on Dartmoor (Devon)
- Dig finds 'industrial scale' Roman engineering fail (Cambridgeshire)
- Anglo-Saxon graves unearthed near historic castle (Hertfordshire)
Museums
- 'Britain's oldest house' replica set to be built (Yorkshire)
- Museum's bid to keep Bronze Age bracelet in county (Dorset)
- Historic museum closing for 5 weeks for roof repairs (Sussex)
- Project to repair museum's historic walls begins (Essex)
- Visitor numbers soar at 'tiny' Cromwell Museum (Cambridgeshire)
- Rural life museum appeals for help to stay open (Surrey)
- Blind group collaborates on tactile exhibition (Dorset)
- Exhibition celebrates history of town's dairy (Oxfordshire)
- Farm attraction tapped into 'passion in community' (Shropshire)
- Museum's extension plan to tell story of female pilot (Lancashire)
- Derelict building could become new site for museum (Wiltsire)
- Exhibition honours heritage railway line's founder (Somerset)
- Rare one-handed clock restored to former glory (Yorkshire)
- Roman relic found by boy in field goes on display (Sussex)
- Roman dodecahedron to remain on show at museum (Lincolnshire)
- Museum brings together medals awarded to WW1 soldier (Nottinghamshire)
Archives & Libraries
- Archives service to launch LGBTQ+ history project (Staffordshire)
- Winston Churchill's Olympic speech rediscovered (Cambridgeshire)
- Thomas Hardy manuscript returns home (Dorset)
- University to digitise India’s post-partition heritage (West Midlands)
- Play about poet's life revived to help fund archive (Dorset)
Churches & Cathedrals
- Totnes church wins £965k grant for restoration (Devon)
- Heritage craft trainees help repair listed church (Lancashire)
- Human bones found at a church in Surrey (Surrey)
- Church to become modern home in preservation bid (Cambridgeshire)
- Cathedral in 150th anniversary search for ex-choir (Worcestershire)
- Church 'devastated' by £90k silver theft (Dorset)
- Churches open together for first time since Black Death (Kent)
- Celebrations mark cathedral bells anniversary (Yorkshire)
- Cathedral to show off graffiti for open days (Worcestershire)
- Appeal launched to repair Grade II listed church (Kent)
Castles & Properties
- Four 'exceptionally rare' paintings to be displayed (Somerset)
- Trust hopes Grade I house project can 'inspire young people' (Derbyshire)
- Lottery funding boost for Norman castle (Herefordshire)
- New stamps mark history of the Tower of London (London)
- Lincoln 'Wonky House' saved after fundraising (Lincoln)
- Pavilion 'stunned' by success of appeal to save dome (Sussex)
- Theatre makes 'mind boggling' Shakespeare discovery (Norfolk)
- Country manor to become regenerative farming hub (Wiltshire)
- Views sought on preserving leper hospital site (Warwickshire)
- How festival funds revival of centuries-old estate (Yorkshire)
- Visitors given a close-up view of castle repairs (Norfolk)
- Hall opens to public for first time in 300 years (Yorkshire)
- Renovation project reveals hidden wartime history (Northumberland)
- Plans to use historic castle for overnight stays (Dorset)
- Visitors to see Hampton Court restored in real time (London)
- Delight as painting stolen in 1979 returned (Derbyshire)
Miscellaneous
- Vintage Marvel comics sell for £12,000 (Leicestershire)
- 'Reminder of death' treasure found in Cornwall (Cornwall)
- 'Who are they?' Lost photos found in France (Lincolnshire)
- Pigeon racing exhibition launched by history group (West Midlands)
- Sheep sculptures celebrate town's wool heritage (Wiltshire)
- The comic-strip hero who charged into history (Norfolk)
- New history festival celebrates local culture (Gloucestershire)
- D-Day nurse remembered 80 years after death (Surrey)
- Concerns for future of heritage observatory site (Sussex)
- Story of isle's first car inspires 1,000-mile trip (Western Isles)
- Name of WW2 hero to be added to memorial (Dorset)
- Medieval bridge shut after being hit by Uber car (Warwickshire)
- Grant offer for working class history projects (Somerset)
- Hidden river to be revealed after a century (Yorkshire)
- World War One wagons to roll again on railway (Lincolnshire)
- Campaign for £150k statue of abolitionist launched (Leicestershire)
- High profile Turing papers banned from leaving UK (Buckinghamshire)
- Haunting Titanic newspaper article found in wardrobe (Staffordshire)
- Club where The Beatles first played to get plaque (Liverpool)
- 'Silent deadly killers': South East's U-boat legacy (Kent)
- First women footballers' park in plaque honour (Liverpool)
- Stolen milestone found installed as garden ornament (Derbyshire)
- Unseen buildings to open up to public view (Yorkshire)
- Top of Grade II-listed monument missing after crash (Warwickshire)
- Battle of Britain bunker was disguised as a garden (London)
- Remains of 18th Century sailor to be buried (Cornwall)
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