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Cash boost for Ballyshannon heritage site

Well-known Donegal heritage site, Condon House, The Mall, Ballyshannon, has been awarded funding to conserve notable historic structures under the Historic Structures Fund 2022. This comes on foot of criticism from councillors on the Donegal ...

01 Apr 2022 at 12:33

Scotland

Freemasonry behind Auld Lang Syne arm linking at new year

Research has uncovered a Masonic connection to why revellers around the world link arms when they sing Auld Lang Syne at new year. A study of Robert Burns’ best-loved song links the practice to freemasonry, where singing with arms crossed ...

31 Dec 2021 at 01:25

Scotland

Floorboards rescued from skip outside Shackleton’s home made into unique violin

The floorboards Sir Ernest Shackleton once trod upon have been made into a violin in honour of the great explorer. The centenary of Shackleton’s death on Wednesday January 5 has been marked by Edinburgh-based luthier and nature ...

04 Jan 2022 at 15:55

Incredible ‘cannon fodder’ cartoon found in 1921 census predicted ‘next war’

A civil servant defaced his 1921 census return with an astonishingly prophetic political cartoon depicting officials in top hats “counting cannon fodder” for the “next war”. Arthur Vince, a 28-year-old tax officer for the ...

06 Jan 2022 at 14:55

Famous faces joined on 1921 census by toddler who would become a household name

The yellowed, handwritten pages of the 1921 census bring to life the private worlds of some of the 20th century’s most famous people – as well as one whose fleeting time in the limelight was much more recent. The ...

06 Jan 2022 at 11:55

Expedition bids to locate lost ship of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton

An expedition to locate the lost ship of renowned polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton will set sail 100 years after his death. The Endurance22 Expedition aims to find, survey and film the wreck of Endurance, ...

05 Jan 2022 at 18:25

Life in post-First World War Britain revealed as 1921 census is released

The lives of every man, woman and child living in England and Wales in 1921 have been revealed like never before, with detailed census returns from Windsor Castle and Chequers to cramped family homes made ...

06 Jan 2022 at 07:25

Collection of Spitfires to go on display at former base

A dozen Spitfires are to go on display at the place where the first operational squadron of the planes flew from. The Spitfire, with its elliptical wings and powerful Rolls Royce engine, is famous for ...

23 Dec 2021 at 01:33

Toxic waste may be leaking into Unesco World Heritage site, say campaigners

An old landfill in the West Midlands thought to contain toxic waste may be leaking into a Unesco World Heritage Site, local Green Party members have said. Stoneyhill is in the south-east of Telford, ...

29 Jun 2023 at 07:18

World

Venice again avoids inclusion on Unesco list of heritage sites in danger

The Italian lagoon city of Venice has escaped inclusion on Unesco’s list of world heritage in danger during a meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Saudi Arabia. Member states commended ...

14 Sept 2023 at 18:06

World

Sites in Yemen and Lebanon added to Unesco world heritage danger list

An ancient Yemeni kingdom and a Lebanese modernist concrete fair park have been added to Unesco’s list of World Heritage Sites in danger. The seven major landmarks of the Ancient Yemenite ...

25 Jan 2023 at 17:31

Stonehenge ‘risks losing world heritage status because of road project’

Stonehenge faces the risk of being “de-listed” as a Unesco world heritage site if plans for a nearby road project featuring a tunnel go ahead, the High Court has been told. Campaigners, ...

12 Dec 2023 at 16:38

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