Heritage

Ukrainian borscht recognised by Unesco with entry on to safeguarding list
UN body adds Ukrainian borscht-making to list of intangible cultural heritage that includes Neapolitan pizza-slinging
Ashifa Kassam
01, Jul, 2022 @5:40 PM

‘It’s quite a commute’: climbers scale Salisbury Cathedral to repair stonework
Team requiring no scaffolding – just ropes – called in to work on statues, transepts, tower and spire
Steven Morris
01, Jul, 2022 @10:32 AM

‘The beating pulse of poetry’: why you should visit Keats House
The Romantic poet’s home in London was a haven where he wrote some of his most famous works. Today, two centuries after his death, it still evokes Keats’ spirit
Ashish Ghadiali
28, Jun, 2022 @1:00 PM

Balmy Britain: why you should visit Ventnor Botanic Garden
Tucked away on the Isle of Wight’s south coast, this haven really can boast a balmy UK microclimate – and has the lizards to prove it
Tim Lewis
27, Jun, 2022 @1:00 PM

Macabre, biased and fascinating: why you should visit the Wellcome Collection
The permanent collection of gruesome medical artefacts, is just one of the attractions at this mesmerising and forward-looking London institution
Bidisha
27, Jun, 2022 @6:00 AM

Ireland’s Tailteann games: forgotten Gaelic ‘Olympics’ that shaped a democracy
A century ago as the country emerged from civil war, an event that rivalled the 1924 Paris Games helped establish a viable nation
Rory Carroll, Ireland Correspondent
25, Jun, 2022 @3:00 PM

Social history and art combined: why you should visit the Centre of Ceramic Art
From Lucie Rie’s buttons to WA Ismay’s unique hoard, the peerless pottery collection in York Art Gallery will appeal to all
Rachel Cooke
24, Jun, 2022 @1:00 PM

Italy’s town of diaries: where forgotten memoirs are salvaged and celebrated
At the national diary archive in Pieve Santo Stefano, Tuscany, no journal is ever turned away – whether typed, scrawled or written on a bedsheet
Edward Posnett
24, Jun, 2022 @9:00 AM

‘It’s a joyful space’: National Trust tells story of Birmingham’s Windrush generation
Home from Home exhibition at Back to Backs recreates Caribbean households of 1970s
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent
21, Jun, 2022 @11:01 PM

Ancient Rome rises again as amphitheatre craze spreads across Britain
From a Cornish clifftop to the urban sprawl of Brent Cross in London, all roads lead to a revival of some very old cultural pursuits
Vanessa Thorpe
19, Jun, 2022 @10:00 AM

Group of British MPs and peers say Parthenon marbles must return to Greece
Six legislators call for return of cultural treasures held by British Museum ‘to their Athenian home’
Helena Smith in Athens
18, Jun, 2022 @5:05 PM

The answer to the Parthenon marbles dispute: George Osborne and a 3D printer | Simon Jenkins
If the British Museum chairman is serious about returning the treasures to Greece, digital technology is his friend, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
Simon Jenkins
16, Jun, 2022 @3:55 PM
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