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April 2021

David Boston obituary

Director of the Horniman museum in London for 28 years who fought hard to guarantee its future

November 2019

Noble Frankland obituary

Director of the Imperial War Museum who transformed it from a decaying backwater to a major tourist attraction

May 2019

‘The stories are a bit sinister’: the secrets of London’s hidden rivers revealed

Exhibition including skulls, weapons and toilet seats recovered from unseen waterways beneath Londoners’ feet gives new insight into city’s history

October 2018

Tattooed ladies, quick wit and a mystery affair: the other side of Edward Burne-Jones

Viking ship burial discovered in Norway just 50cm underground

September 2018

Brothers in art: the Renaissance rivalry of Mantegna and Bellini

With paintings so similar their origins have been disputed for centuries, these giants of Italian art are now being exhibited together for the first time at London’s National Gallery

Sailor's rape confession uncovered in 17th-century journal

National Maritime Museum discovers concealed note in Edward Barlow’s diary

George IV's restored Brighton pavilion saloon unveiled

Heaving with crimson and gold, the 1823 room has taken three years of painstaking work to return it to its former glory

August 2018

Spellbound in Oxford by the prestige of the Ashmolean museum

Drawing money: images of Bank print workers go on display

Wherefore art thou? Exhibition celebrates Shakespeare's Shoreditch origins

Women say online abuse is barrier to University Challenge

• Nelson Mandela's prison letter on friend's death up for auction

• UK weather: sunny spells forecast after wet bank holiday weekend

• Henry Moore sketch found among Gurlitt hoard of Nazi-looted art

• Alexander Pope designed Marble Hill garden, says historian

• Van Gogh's 'terrifying environment' of French asylum revealed

• Bronze head of Emperor Augustus laid low again at British Museum

• 'Millennia of human activity': heatwave reveals lost UK archaeological sites

• Emery Walker's Islamic collection opens to public in London

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