History news - October 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
- 'Ancient pub' dug up at £21m Dover Beacon site (Kent)
- Villagers hope for 'historical' finds at dig (Lincolnshire)
- Archaeological dig unearths 6,000 years of history (Lincolnshire)
- Prehistoric tools unearthed near major road (Oxfordshire)
- How archaeological digs are boosting mental health (Yorkshire)
- Fossil 'treasure trove' found at landslip site (Isle of Wight)
- 'Finding 3,500-year-old wooden spade was exciting' (Dorset)
- Bodies unearthed at hospital archaeological dig (Bristol)
Museums
- Museum will keep Maasai objects following visit (Oxfordshire)
- Jane Austen's writing desk returns for anniversary (Hampshire)
- Museum visitors to have AI chats with dodo (Cambridgeshire)
- Leaking maritime museum to close for repairs (Cornwall)
- 'Unusual' Anglo-Saxon replica of Roman coin found (Norfolk)
- Disguise used by sailor on the run goes on show (Lincolnshire)
- Family 'so stressed' after museum break-in (Isle of Wight)
- Fire engine returns to Sussex after over 100 years (Sussex)
Archives, Libraries & Collections
- Thousands of historical artefacts to be moved (Wiltshire)
- Legal battles of 17th Century foster mums revealed (Lancashire)
- Water company archive to become publicly available (Dorset)
- The WW1 hut that became county's first library (Wiltshire)
- 'Foundling' children's stories told for first time (Cheshire)
- Exhibition marks 200 years since the Great Gale (Dorset)
- Rarely displayed artwork to be showcased online (Hampshire)
Churches & Cathedrals
- Top award for restored 'masterpiece' dockyard church (Kent)
- Man turns 80,000 matchsticks into Minster (County Durham)
- Grave of woman killed by tiger in pub restored (Wiltshire)
- Project to save medieval church gets funding boost (Wiltshire)
- Church bell rings after 150 years of silence (Somerset)
Castles & Properties
- Urgent repairs ordered for Grade I listed castle (Isle of Wight)
- Project to save at-risk buildings with help of app (Derbyshire)
- Council-owned historic hall put on the market (Derbyshire)
- Two sails removed from historic working windmill (Wiltshire)
- Sails to return to historic windmill under plans (Warwickshire)
- Shackleton cross makes 7,000-mile journey to Dundee (Tayside)
- Funding secured to maintain ancient monument (Kent)
- Former helter-skelter among new listed buildings (Norfolk)
- Community baths celebrate 120 years of swimming (Yorkshire)
- Orangery to be reinstated at 1800s Cornwall house (Cornwall)
- Labour Party meeting hall gains listed status (Shropshire)
- 'Staggering array' of 'witches marks' discovered (Lincolnshire)
- Palace to launch £10m project to repair roof (Oxfordshire)
- Castle renovation work costs soar to £27.5m (Norfolk)
- Christmas display at Wollaton Hall cancelled (Nottinghamshire)
Miscellaneous
- Mudlarks find 152-year-old Boat Race medal (London)
- Coastguard called as shipwreck spotted from beach (Cumbria)
- Diary and letters help find sunk WW1 U-boat (Channel Islands)
- Blue plaque honours city's anti-slavery heritage (Yorkshire)
- People to tell their stories about river's history (Herefordshire)
- Researcher hunts for anti-slavery campaigner photo (Tyne)
- WWI soldier to have name added to war memorial (Sussex)
- Historic city's original boundary excavated (Oxfordshire)
- Animal remains could belong to England's last wolf (Yorkshire)
- Search for women who worked on wartime locomotives (Hampshire)
- Dad's WW2 fork found 84 years after last meal (Yorkshire)
- Hoard of medieval silver coins found in mid-Devon (Devon)
- Name plates reunited with 'lost' steam engine (Nottingham)
- Detectorists split £4.3m Norman coin hoard (Somerset)
- Rare coin found in field expected to fetch £8,000 (Somerset)
- Search to find subjects of 1950s photo portraits (Bristol)
- Story of injured WW2 US airman uncovered (Suffolk)
- Forgotten grave of hero soldier fully restored (Wiltshire)
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