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BY EUROPEANA
21.12.2015
2015: Top 20 Searches on Europeana
2015’s nearly over, but before we say farewell, let’s look at what you’ve been searching for this year in Europeana’s collections. Since January, millions of searches have been typed into...
BY Culture24
30.12.2015
Object of the Week: The score for Deck the Halls copied by Jane Austen in her family music book
© Jane Austen's House Museum Jane Austen played the piano and sang throughout her life. She and her family carefully copied music by hand into personal albums, and collected the sheet music that...
BY Culture24
02.01.2016
Brontë Society and National Portrait Gallery combine for Brontë200 celebrations
Major exhibitions, displays and events mark the bicentenary of the birth of Charlotte Brontë in 2016 Charlotte Brontë by George Richmond, 1850 © Copyright: National Portrait Gallery, London Precious...
BY Culture24
18.12.2015
Scientists use skulls to show how "Last Common Ancestor" between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals might have looked
Scientists aim to solve controversies surrounding human evolution and fill out blank fossil record The virtual fossil of the Last Common Ancestor, as seen by the Duckworth Laboratory in Cambridge,...
BY Culture24
19.12.2015
"We definitely didn't expect to find any skeletons": Medieval male "suffered greatly" with two broken legs, arthritis and bone infection
An unfortunate medieval man suffered broken legs, osteo-arthritis and osteomyelitis, say archaeologists surprised at skeletal discoveries Two skeletons were uncovered at Halton Castle, in Runcorn,...
BY Culture24
20.12.2015
Decapitated body with head between legs found among unusual Roman burials at new armed forces site
The alignment of a set of graves found at Worthy Down suggests they could have been steeped in tribal traditions One of the burials found at Worthy Down, where the Defence College of Logistics will...
BY EUROPEANA
17.12.2015
Warm up with some winter sports
It’s winter again – it’s cold outside, and the skies have turned dark and gray. Most mornings, you won’t even want to leave your cosy bed. That all changes, however, when...
BY Culture24
16.12.2015
"Blow up revolting art": The disappearing public artworks Historic England wants the public to help find
Where did Britain's lost artworks go? A public appeal hopes to track down the post-war sculptures which have disappeared The Armada Way murals, by Edward Pond and Kenneth Clark Ceramics, were 91...
BY Culture24
16.12.2015
Shipwrecks and stolen cloth: Scots could have treated pirates of medieval Europe leniently
Aberdeen excelled on European stage but was embroiled in medieval pirate controversy, papers show A tolerance of piracy extended to the highest levels of society, say historians poring over...
BY Culture24
15.12.2015
David Bowie Is: V&A curators praise Groninger Museum as blockbuster exhibition opens in the Netherlands
As the V&A's exultant exhibition opens in the Netherlands, curators say the display shows how Bowie was the master of his own myth The Alessandro Mendini-designed Groninger Museum, where David...
BY Culture24
04.01.2016
The best exhibitions to see in Wales in 2016
We've scoured the land to bring you our recommendations of the best exhibitions to see in Wales in 2016 with everything from an archaeological fact and fiction mash-up to an ode to a nuclear power...
BY Culture24
11.12.2015
Pre-Raphaelites to head home to Liverpool for major Walker Art Gallery show
The Pre-Raphaelites' strong connections to Liverpool are explored in a major 2016 exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery In the Grass, about 1864–5, Arthur Hughes (1832–1915), Exhibited at the...
BY Culture24
10.12.2015
"Significant" Viking hoard revealed at the British Museum for launch of Annual Treasure Report
A significant Viking hoard is the star find at the launch of the Annual Treasure Report The Watlington Viking Hoard © PAS A Viking Hoard dating from the time of the ‘Last Kingdom’, when the...
BY EUROPEANA
08.12.2015
Edvard Munch
For art lovers across Europe, Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is one of modern art’s greatest painters. He is best known for his work “The Scream”, which is one of the most recognizable works of art...
BY Culture24
08.12.2015
Archaeologists discover earliest British gun flints on Clan island off coast of Scotland
Archaeologists scale cliffs to challenge view of clan island as being "on edge of the world" A Northern Lewis outpost occupyied a far more prominent position in the medieval Gaelic world than...
BY Culture24
08.12.2015
Object of the week is Sobek, a 2,500-year-old mummified Nile crocodile
Object of the week: Sobek, a 2,500-year old crocodile worshipped in life by the ancient Egyptians and mummified with all due reverence after death “Sharp of Teeth” and “Lord of Fear”: Sobek, a...
BY Culture24
09.12.2015
William Shakespeare's last will and testament among key documents going on public show at Somerset House
Six of the nation's most important Shakespeare documents will go on show in London next year From citizen and businessman to family man, servant to the King and even possibly thief and subversive,...
BY Culture24
07.12.2015
Stonehenge was part of monument in Wales before being dragged to Wiltshire, say scientists
Stonehenge was originally part of a monument between two Welsh quarries, say scientists searching for structure in Pembrokeshire Coast National Park © Adam Stanford / Aerial-Cam Ltd,...
BY Culture24
07.12.2015
Terrified family gift ghostly book to Brighton's most haunted house
Terrified family offload haunted book on spooky Preston Manor in Brighton The haunted ledger, now residing at Preston Manor in Brighton © Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton & Hove A family in...
BY Culture24
04.12.2015
