15+ hour, 58+ min ago   (394+ words) Routes used by generations of workers travelling to and from historic shipyards are being celebrated with a special trail. The new Shipyard Trail gives visitors the chance to follow the routes between Bideford and Appledore yards in north Devon and…...

18+ hour, 45+ min ago   (1045+ words) It rises from the flat fields on the south bank of the Humber Estuary – a magnificent, towering building that, at first glance, resembles a castle. "We are looking at, in a nutshell, the largest and most magnificent abbey gatehouse in…...

20+ hour, 43+ min ago   (375+ words) The image, taken during the hot summer of 1995, showed a series of parch marks in the grass at Temple Newsam in Leeds, revealing that something once stood there. Phil Jones, who helped lead the dig, said everywhere the group had…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (295+ words) In 1935, tens of thousands who had followed Mao Zedong on the Long March across China struggled to survive. They were fleeing Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces during the country's civil war. Zhong Ming was one of them. In 2014, a year before…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (525+ words) Behind an unassuming door within a road tunnel, Peter Burgess switches on some dim lights in a hidden cave and waits for them to warm up. It's the darkness and silence of a cave that gives it an eerie stillness,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (469+ words) Tributes have been paid to World War Two veteran Norman Irwin, from Coleraine, who has died at the age of 107. The death of Norman Irwin was announced by his family on Thursday. Norman Irwin, who was born in 1918 and was…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (536+ words) A replica of Christopher Columbus's flagship, the Santa María, has sailed into Douglas harbour, attracting attention from residents and visitors along the quay. The replica was built in 2018 over an 18-month period and has been travelling around Britain and Ireland....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (407+ words) A research project exploring untold stories of black US Air Force personnel based in East Anglia during the Cold War has the potential to become one of the first and biggest archives of its kind, its project manager hopes. Black…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (456+ words) Staff at a museum say they are "delighted" a fragment from a long-lost 2nd Century Roman mosaic of sea creatures that was unearthed 243 years ago has been loaned to them. The mosaic, which will be on display at Coronium Museum, in…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (209+ words) Heritage sites across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire will open their doors to visitors for free, as part of a festival to celebrate history and culture. The events, which have been organised as part of Heritage Open Days, will take place…...