History news - July 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
- Grave reveals Roman influence on drinking habits (Dorset)
- Anglo-Saxons may have fought in northern Syrian wars, say experts (England)
- Archaeologists to dig for medieval building on farm (Cumbria)
- Coin minted in 82BC discovered in Roman dig (Cumbria)
- 'Roman villa' discovered by archaeology students (Leicestershire)
- Expert hopes to find Civil War evidence in dig (Worcestershire)
- 'It's not every day you find a Roman road in your school field' (Oxfordshire)
- 'Ideal' conditions reveal bronze cannon on seabed (Essex)
- 'Fascinating finds' pause revamp of former M&S store (Nottinghamshire)
Museums
- Wallace and Gromit vehicles on display at museum (Wiltshire)
- Row over council's plans for new museum cafe (Leicestershire)
- Historic mill could be turned into new museum (Gloucestershire)
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Heritage car event to celebrate anniversaries (Warwickshire)
- Museum at serious risk from leaking roof (Yorkshire)
- Exhibition explores how Egyptian relics came to Derby (Derbyshire)
- Players to perform Hay Wain near Constable painting (Bristol)
- Exhibition marks 60 years since A Hard Day's Night (Liverpool)
- Museum to reopen following £5m renovation (Wiltshire)
- Prince's sailor suit sparked 'early' fashion trend (Yorkshire)
- Cornwall mineral exhibit opens after £476k revamp (Cornwall)
- Head of world's oldest horse returns to hometown (Cheshire)
- River's Bronze Age 'offerings' to go on display (Nottingham)
- Centuries-old mystery around woman solved (Wiltshire)
- Exhibition explores East End lives through the ages (London)
- Museums launch child-friendly hours over summer (London)
Archives & Libraries
Churches & Cathedrals
- Cornwall villagers seek new home for rare organ (Cornwall)
- Cathedral gets £1m donation for organ restoration (Gloucestershire)
- Hospital exhibition showcases minster treasures (York)
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Robert the Bruce 3D model 'most realistic ever produced' (Scotland)
Castles & Properties
- Recently repaired castle ruins targeted by vandals (Oxfordshire)
- Evidence of Roman villas found in survey (Shropshire)
- Listed building's condition a 'significant concern' (Oxfordshire)
- Country house sold for £1 goes on sale for £3.5m (Staffordshire)
- Hampton Court: Ordinary lives and extraordinary times (London)
- Castle project offers medieval siege-themed play area (Dover)
- Exhibition explores lives of Tudor spy family (Kent)
- Historians refuse to commemorate 'unruly' punk gig (Suffolk)
- Heritage attraction celebrates 50th birthday (Devon)
- Tannery's 'forgotten history' to be shared at reunions (Somerset)
- Call for public ownership of asylum cemetery (Surrey)
Miscellaneous
- Winnie-the-Pooh corner goes up for sale (Bristol)
- Play shown for first time since 1671 controversy (Kent)
- Village set for 'spectacle' of explorer's reburial (Lincolnshire)
- Statue to commemorate war horse to be unveiled (Merseyside)
- Family of WW2 aviator traced in cricket cap appeal (Yorkshire)
- Lost WW1 trenches given historical protection (Hampshire)
- Collection of rare shillings expected to fetch £50k (Sussex)
- Rare Aphra Behn novel found on home bookshelf (Kent)
- Florence Nightingale hair fetches more than £3,500 (Yorkshire)
- Black scholars stories told on guided bus tour (Oxford)
- New street mural celebrates city's textile history (Bradford)
- Cameras behind famous fairy hoax photos analysed (Bradford)
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