Heritage
The elephant in the rooms of our stately homes | Letters
Brief letters: National Trust visits | Bill Tidy | Standing stones | Gene editing | Trampoline ban
31, Mar, 2023 @5:12 PM
Lizzo’s black dress and Beyoncé’s gold halo star in Kensington Palace show
Crown to Couture exhibition reveals red carpet celebrity gowns echo costumes of 18th-century aristocrats
Esther Addley
29, Mar, 2023 @5:17 PM
Coventry’s medieval Charterhouse opens to public after 11-year rescue effort
City residents raised £10m to prevent the Carthusian monastery being sold for commercial use
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent
27, Mar, 2023 @5:00 AM
From prison to refuge: fight to turn Oscar Wilde’s Reading gaol into arts hub
Campaigners hope bid to develop site of prison where famous poem was composed may finally succeed
Esther Addley
25, Mar, 2023 @12:44 PM
Grim truth that tarnishes Drumlanrig’s treasures | Brief letters
Brief letters: Drumlanrig’s riches | Slavery and Austen | Existential T-shirts
24, Mar, 2023 @5:48 PM
Australia must do more to prevent ‘looting and destruction’ of underwater heritage, report says
Government urged to ratify UN convention in order to protect undersea areas like shipwrecks and now-submerged First Nations heritage sites
Tory Shepherd
20, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM
Export ban on Coleridge anti-slavery manuscript as British buyer sought
Handwritten poem in Greek from his undergraduate years has recommended sale price of £20,400
Esther Addley
17, Mar, 2023 @4:50 PM
Remains of Roman aristocrat unearthed in ‘extraordinary’ cemetery near Leeds
Archaeologists hail ‘once in a lifetime’ discovery of Roman and Saxon site dating back 1,600 years
Josh Halliday North of England correspondent
13, Mar, 2023 @12:03 PM
No plans to return Parthenon marbles to Greece, says Rishi Sunak
PM says British Museum collection is funded by taxpayers and protected by law
Aubrey Allegretti in San Diego
13, Mar, 2023 @7:23 AM
Surviving copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio to go on show
Events planned in UK and Ireland, including a British Library exhibition, to mark 400 years since complete works first published
Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent
12, Mar, 2023 @3:44 PM
Developers who destroyed historic Lancashire pub ordered to rebuild it
Punch Bowl Inn at Hurst Green, said to have been haunted by highwayman, must be reconstructed using materials from rubble
Robyn Vinter North of England correspondent
10, Mar, 2023 @11:59 AM
Council’s role in restoring gothic Toynbee fountain in Wimbledon | Letter
Letter: The deputy leader of Merton council, Eleanor Stringer, responds to Polly Toynbee’s claim that local authorities have been ‘far from cooperative’ in such heritage projects
09, Mar, 2023 @5:48 PM
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