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BY Culture24
22.11.2015
Victoria Beckham's Barbed Wire Love painting goes on public display in Brangelina artist's Bournemouth show
Dom Pattinson, whose art was given to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as a wedding present by George Clooney, exhibits in Bournemouth © Dom Pattinson The links between Brangelina, Victoria Beckham and...
BY Culture24
22.11.2015
200-year-old token found on Dorset beach probably belonged to famous fossil-finder Mary Anning, say researchers
Destitute female fossil-finder who made great discoveries during early 19th century remembered by token on beach The name Mary Anning and the date shown on the token which could have been made for...
BY Culture24
27.11.2015
Pot of the Week: The Bell Ringer's Jug of St Giles Church, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Our Pot of the Week this week is a beautiful bell ringer's jug from the collection of Brampton Museum in Newcastle-under-Lyme © Brampton Museum In the collection at the Brampton Museum there are two...
BY Culture24
18.11.2015
Natural History Museum to open new Human Evolution Gallery
The Natural History Museum is to tell the story of human evolution in a new permanent gallery opening December 18 Neanderthal and homo-sapien models in the gallery at the NHM © Trustees of NHM...
BY Culture24
20.11.2015
Object of the Week: The family of a 16-year-old World War One hero learn of his posthumous honour
This week we bring you a picture of the family of a national hero who was one of the youngest members of the Royal Navy at the Battle of Jutland © NMRN Archives This is the moment when the mother of...
BY Culture24
25.11.2015
Object of the Week: Forceps and a scoop used for performing a 17th century lithotomy
This week we bring you a set of operating implements from a mid-17th century surgeon’s collection © Royal College of Physicians Richard Kettlebuter - or possibly Kettlebetter - was an experienced...
BY EUROPEANA
16.11.2015
A Viking Love Story – the Saga of Frithiof
Do you know the legend of the Norwegian hero Frithiof? It’s become an immortal Scandinavian tale – several variations of it exist, and composers and artists throughout history have been...
BY Culture24
16.11.2015
Species "undiscovered" after Natural History Museum CT scans mouse-sized mid-Jurassic fossil found on Isle of Skye
Fossilised teeth found on Isle of Skye could turn three species into one A tiny, 170-million-year-old fossil on the Isle of Skye has led researchers to conclude that three previously recognised...
BY Culture24
16.11.2015
13,000-year-old hunter-gatherer bone in Georgian cave reveals "major new piece in human jigsaw", say scientists
Yamnaya culture of Bronze Age Europe owed half its ancestry to different gene pool, say scientists discovering "major new piece in human ancestry jigsaw" Scientists have carried out the first...
BY Culture24
16.11.2015
Sun Ra travels the jazz spaceways again at Nottingham Contemporary
Mark Sheerin travels the spaceways to find jazz in outer space courtesy of Nottingham Contemporary's Sun Ra tribute The cover shot of Sun Ra's Impulse LP, Space is the Place How can someone so...
BY Culture24
13.11.2015
A Brief History of Underwear: V&A announces revealing Undressed exhibition in 2016
Pants you can count the days on, Queen Victoria's mother's cottons and more heading for the V&A Gwyneth Paltrow wearing a trompe l’oeil corset dress, designed by Antonio Berardi (2009) © Sipa...
BY Culture24
13.11.2015
Matching slabs of stone from Roman Britain town found by archaeologists more than a century apart
Slab sections found in 2013 belonged to sign Boudica could have destroyed, confirm experts Two Roman sign pieces have been confirmed as coming from the same slab in Silchester © University of...
BY EUROPEANA
12.11.2015
New online exhibition: The Men on the Memorial
During the First World War men and boys from more than 16,000 parishes in England and Wales joint the Army. Of all these villages there were only 53 so called “Thankful Villages” – places to which...
BY Culture24
12.11.2015
Pablo Picasso's glass goat briefly revealed to public alongside robot Japanese bartender
Glass Picasso goat and drink-dispensing robot butler stand side-by-side with global silver Assistant Curator Sarah Rothwell, from National Museums Scotland, with Capra by Picasso © Neil Hanna An...
BY Culture24
11.11.2015
Wiltshire Museum launches £8K appeal to buy Anglo Saxon gold coin from 'dawn of English Christianity'
Wiltshire Museum in Devizes is fundraising to buy an Anglo-Saxon gold coin found in nearby East Grafton The East Grafton Anglo Saxon Coin Wiltshire Museum is launching a fund-raising campaign to buy...
BY Culture24
10.11.2015
See some of the bizarre and brilliant drawings from the huge new French Revolution Digital Archive
Stanford University and the Bibliothèque nationale de France have teamed up to put thousands of drawings from the 18th century French Revolution online. The results are a riot of revolt, strange...
BY Culture24
10.11.2015
Bodleian Library acquires and publishes famous 'lost' Shelley poem and pamphlet
A lost revolutionary poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published in 1811 and considered lost until 2006, has been acquired by the Bodleian in Oxford Copy of the best-known portrait of Shelley. The oil...
BY Culture24
09.11.2015
"Very rare and extremely cool": X-rays to begin on thousands of 17th century letters which were never read
X-rays used in dentistry to reveal "accidental archive" of letters from all levels of society more than 300 years ago © The Signed, Sealed, & Undelivered team, 2015. De Brienne Collection....
BY Culture24
06.11.2015
