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BY Culture24
06.11.2015
Win David Remfry's We Think The World of You, People and Dogs Drawn Together
Win a copy of David Remfry's We Think the World of You, People and Dogs Drawn Together © Royal Academy David Remfry (born 1942) is best known for his life-sized watercolours of urban scenes and...
BY Culture24
08.11.2015
Mythologised and misunderstood: Photos of former residents of remotest part of the British Isles revealed
Before they were voluntarily evacuated, generations of people lived on islands 100 miles from Scotland The group of islands were home to generations of people for thousands of years. Posed by the...
BY EUROPEANA
05.11.2015
Venus and Cupid
No love is stronger than the love between mother and child. Today we want to illustrate the striking connection between Venus and Cupid. The theme has been subject of many artworks throughout the...
BY Culture24
05.11.2015
Objects of the Week: Guy Fawkes' lantern and the relic of the eyeball of an executed Gunpowder Plot Jesuit priest
This week we bring you the lantern from the Gunpowder Plot - and the eyeball of a priest executed for his part in its aftermath © Colin Davison / Auckland Castle Guy Fawkes is said to have been...
BY Culture24
05.11.2015
Hidden portrait of Henry VIII's only son, Edward VI, emerges in painting of boy king who died at 15
Portrait of monarch crowned at nine years old goes on display at Florence Nightingale Museum This portrait of Edward VI was thought to be lost © Colin White, courtesy Guy's and St Thomas' Charity A...
BY Culture24
05.11.2015
Curator's Choice: Irini Papadimitriou on the beauty and inspiration of the Victoria & Albert Museum
Irini Papadimitriou, the Digital Programmes Manager at the Victoria & Albert Museum, on digital art, knitting and finding inspiration “It is quite extraordinary to be based in such a beautiful...
BY Culture24
12.11.2015
Object of the Week: A fumigating torch used to drive off the plague from the 17th century
This week we bring you a fumigating torch which could have foiled the plague with sweet smells © Science Museum (Wellcome Collection) Part of the upcoming Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution at...
BY Culture24
04.11.2015
Win tickets to hear the experts speak at London's BAFTA HQ
Win a pair of tickets to an event at BAFTA HQ in London this weekend © Courtesy BAFTA BAFTA is opening its doors to the public this weekend for BAFTA 2015: A Year in Pictures, the latest...
BY Culture24
03.11.2015
Pele, Sergio Aguero's head and Football Manager: National Football Museum looks at gaming
Artworks and curious exhibits allow the public to explore the close links between football and gaming in the National Football Museum's new show in Manchester © National Football Museum This model...
BY Culture24
04.11.2015
Tickets for return of Flying Scotsman to go on sale to public as steam legend nears return
Flying Scotsman tickets to go on sale on Friday from the National Railway Museum Flying Scotsman departing Scarborough Station on the return journey to York August 5 2004 © Courtesy NRM The public...
BY Culture24
04.11.2015
"Fabulous objects": The stunning mirrors which reveal the skill of Iron Age metalworkers
Mirror buried in Scottish bog and Iron Age bronze artefact from Devon embark on tour from British Museum British Museum Project Co-ordinator Natalie Tacq admires the 2,000-year-old Holcombe (left)...
BY Culture24
02.11.2015
Archaeologists find Ice Age engravings, tools and burnt bone at Jersey hunter-gatherer site
Ice Age engravings and art could have been found within "very rare" British settlement UK archaeologists working in Jersey have found the remains of a 15,000-year-old hunter-gatherer settlement © Dr...
BY EUROPEANA
30.10.2015
10 terrifying costume ideas for Halloween
(Well… sort of terrifying.) If you’re planning to mark All Hallows Eve, or Halloween as it’s now known, by dressing up, why not leave the witch’s hat and bed sheets in the...
BY Culture24
30.10.2015
Devil marks, drownings and death: The story of the Witchfinder General in Essex
Who was the Witchfinder General? This Halloween, follow the trail of an Essex villain Two sentinel-like towers like in the wake of the church where Hopkins was buried © Visit Essex If you lived in...
BY Culture24
02.11.2015
Curator's Choice: Jane Sellars on Sonia Lawson's Paintings, Passions and Alarms at the Mercer Art Gallery
Jane Sellars, of the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate, on the inspirations of Royal Academician Sonia Lawson Sonia Lawson, Portrait of my Mother, Muriel Metcalfe (1981). Oil on canvas © Sonia Lawson...
BY Culture24
02.11.2015
Archaeologists begin conservation work on HMS London's "absolutely beautiful" gun carriage
Conservation experts have had the first chance to examine the HMS London's gun carriage, excavated off Southend Pier The gun carriage of the HMS London on deck © Historic England Conservation work...
BY Culture24
29.10.2015
Landscape Photographer of the Year 2015: See ten of the best photos and win the book
See ten of the best photos from this year's £10,000 prize - and then win the collected book Andy Farrer, Bat's Head, Dorset, England - this year's Landscape Photographer of the Year Winner Mairi...
BY Culture24
29.10.2015
Archaeologists say fire pit feast remains found in Scotland are "early Neolithic cultural package"
Early Neolithic people feasted in South Lanarkshire around 6,000 years, suggest pits full of precious deposits Newly published analysis of archaeological finds has revealed the remains of feasting...
BY Culture24
30.10.2015
Public given chance to see 18th century tobacco pipe factory discovered by archaeologists in Bath
Archaeologists to welcome visitors to tobacco pipe factory first opened more than 200 years ago Members of the public are being invited to see the early stages of an archaeological excavation which...
BY Culture24
28.10.2015
