History news - June 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
- Pipe dig reveals Roman and Bronze Age settlements (Essex)
- Archaeological dig to celebrate England's first king (Wiltshire)
- Ancient settlement unearthed at housing development (Oxfordshire)
- Archaeologists discover Norman bridge during dig (Sussex)
- Catapult shots from 13th Century found at castle (Warwickshire)
- Tudor hat badge offers 'rare chance to trace owner' (Essex)
Museums
- Jurassic fossil found in storeroom to go on display (Nottingham)
- Museum's classic cars worth £1.5m set for auction (Devon)
- Work begins to preserve 16th Century Cornish cannon (Cornwall)
- New Lego history show opens at Gloucester Museum (Gloucestershire)
- Beckford's Tower reopens after £3.9m refurb (Somerset)
Archives & Libraries
- Funding for project on Barbados' oldest sheet music (Gloucestershire)
- Carriage maker's archive secured for public (Derbyshire)
- Rare report of Charles I's trial to go on display (Yorkshire)
- Project to digitise aristocrat's letters wins award (Dorset)
- Voices from past tell of shift in countryside life (Yorkshire)
- 428-year-old secret dossier reveals Elizabeth I’s network of spies (London)
Churches & Cathedrals
- Police investigating church burglary (Gloucestershire)
- York Minster looking for apprentice stonemason (Yorkshire)
- The brass eagle has landed after theft from church (West Midlands)
- Roman and medieval past unearthed in churchyard dig (Anglesey)
- Victorian design restored onto church organ (Wiltshire)
- Exhibition marks 40 years since York Minster fire (Yorkshire)
- Silverware stolen in church burglary (Suffolk)
Miscellaneous
- Village to honour woman arrested on march for the vote (Scottish borders)
- Oldest Christian book sells for more than £3m (London)
- The scientific pioneer who shaped the modern world (Glasgow)
- A heads up on the £2.5m Invergordon bust saga (Highlands)
- Plaque to remember two famous visitors to house (Staffordshire)
- Project to document city's forgotten ghost signs (Yorkshire)
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