Heritage

Art

After decades, tiny 500-year-old royal portrait is identified as Mary Tudor

It’s Mary Tudor – by a nose. Not in a horse race, but from a comparison of portraits of Mary, Henry VIII’s elder daughter who became the first crowned...
Business

‘Every hammer blow makes a difference’: handcrafting whisky stills in Scotland – photo essay

The sharp, repetitive sound of hammers steadily beating copper into shape echoes around the fabrication hall on an...
England

‘Piece of British history’: nuclear bunker in Norfolk to be sold at auction

Online auctions are usually filled with fragile antiques and niche memorabilia that ought not to be touched. Those...
Culture

Not any old rubbish: Edinburgh’s Mound was built to order from rubble, pipes and oyster shells

For more than 200 years, the creation of Edinburgh’s famous Mound has remained something of a mystery.Built on...
Colonialism

UK auction house cancels ‘disrespectful’ sale of shrunken heads and skulls

A British auction house has withdrawn from sale human and ancestral remains, including shrunken heads and skulls, from...

Dorset ‘Stonehenge’ discovered under Thomas Hardy’s home

Archaeology Trustnews Trustnews -
When the author Thomas Hardy was writing Tess of the D’Urbervilles in 1891, he chose to set the novel’s dramatic conclusion at Stonehenge, where...

Necklace worn at Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation could fetch £2m at auction

Culture Trustnews Trustnews -
An antique diamond necklace worn at Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation and may be linked to a French scandal involving Marie Antoinette is could fetch...

Constantine Arch in Rome damaged by lightning during violent storm

Climate crisis Trustnews Trustnews -
Lightning has struck the Constantine Arch near the Colosseum in Rome during a violent thunderstorm, breaking off fragments from the ancient structure, officials have...

It’s a scandal that the Great Central Railway was ever shut | Letters

Heritage Trustnews Trustnews -
I congratulate all the people, most of them volunteers, who’ve worked so hard to restore parts of the Great Central Railway and now hope...

Editor Picks

Must Read

Hot Topics