History news - September 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
- Viking king's coin find of 'national significance' (Norfolk)
- Army cadets help uncover ancient artefacts (Gloucestershire)
- Remains at 'lost cemetery' removed for tests (Northumberland)
- Coins found in farmer's field declared treasure (Staffordshire)
Museums
- Ancient Roman kiln goes on display for first time (London)
- Gainsborough museum to host self-portrait display (Suffolk)
- Museum opening delayed after contractor goes bust (Leicestershire)
- The 'joy and despair' of owning a threatened tower (Essex)
- Battlefield crosses on display at cemetery museum (Gloucestershire)
- 'London's lost treasures' in mudlarking exhibition (London)
- Museum seeks owner of 30-year-old wallet (Lincolnshire)
- Museum raises half of funds needed to stay open (Surrey)
- Rare Gainsborough portraits go on display (Somerset)
- Horse charity marks 50 years with museum (Lancashire)
- Faces of enslaved people focus of exhibition (Yorkshire)
- Appeal for help to lift rare carriage from garden (Somerset)
- Roman Painted House reopens after refurbishment (Kent)
- Museum to work on pilot idea to be more accessible (Cambridgeshire)
- London's 1980s Blitz club to be explored in exhibit (London)
- Four Turner views shown together for first time (Norfolk)
- V&A Museum to showcase rare ceiling from India (London)
- Beachy Head heritage centre could re-open in 2025 (Sussex)
Archives & Libraries
- Original Jungle Book proof notes given to university (Cambridgeshire)
- Century-old road maps made available online (Oxfordshire)
- 'Sheer good luck baseball diary survived' - historian (Surrey)
- 'Rare' Islamic manuscripts on display for first time (Cambridgeshire)
- Lace making history on show online and in library (Nottinghamshire)
Churches & Cathedrals
- Medieval leper chapel faces £250k repair bill (Cambridgeshire)
- Cathedral holds first blessing service for pets (Wiltshire)
- Cathedral fire prompts al fresco Sunday service (Lincolnshire)
- Church clock from 1870s undergoing repairs (Leicestershire)
- Funding push to fix Wells Cathedral organ (Somerset)
- Estate map from 1729 on show after restoration (Norfolk)
- Exhibition plugs valley's 70-year archive gap (Yorkshire)
- Gilded icon stolen from university chapel (Cambridgeshire)
Castles & Properties
- Listed Georgian mansion to have solar panels installed (Lancashire)
- Steam railway seeks to rebuild signal box (Shropshire)
- Rainbow Portrait back after 'meticulous' conservation (Hertfordshire)
- Historical copperworks buildings to be restored (Swansea)
- Abseiling cleaners tidy up 800-year-old castle (Warwickshire)
- Protection for Neolithic site at Thomas Hardy home (Dorset)
- Anne Hathaway’s Cottage to open throughout year (Warwickshire)
Miscellaneous
- 'Country's largest' WW2 battle re-enactment held (Leicestershire)
- Historic paddle steamers delight onlookers (Devon)
- Renaming of locomotive to honour Polish war heroes (Kent)
- Children to learn GWR history through interactive show (Wiltshire)
- Looping canal boat celebrates industrial heritage (Yorkshire)
- Visitors flock to see new Agatha Christie statue (Oxford)
- Appeal to restore grave of first Wimbledon champion (Kent)
- Ancient horn dance returns to village (Staffordshire)
- Hundreds back statue for Headscarf Revolutionaries (Yorkshire)
- Women's rights activist statue 'to inspire others' (Cheshire)
- War hero's regiment to auction military memorabilia (Liverpool)
- New sculpture honours Accrington Pals soldiers (Lancashire)
- Dodo bone and letter fetch £23,000 at auction (Sussex)
- Letters from former bishop to artist sold at auction (London)
- Women textile workers statue unveiling date revealed (Nottinghamshire)
- Statue to honour Canary Girls at former factory site (Gloucestershire)
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