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Duty Calls: The Country House in Time of War 15/03/2013 Duty Calls looks at the impact of various conflicts on nine of Yorkshire’s major country houses, and the experiences of their occupants and wider communities, from the points of view of owners, …

New gallery for Staffordshire Hoard 13/03/2013 Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced it has awarded the venue £704,500 towards the creation of the gallery. First objects from the Staffordshire Hoard went on temporary display at Birmingham Museum and …

Boost for Tavistock 02/04/2013 A partnership bid by local councils, businesses and community groups to the HLF for its Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) programme has been successful in the face of tough competition from across the country. The …

Kew’s historic Temperate House to be restored 28/03/2013 This will not only enable vital conservation of the Grade I listed heritage building, the largest Victorian glasshouse in the world, but will result in a more inspiring public display for visitors …

More to Surbiton than The Good Life 06/02/2013 The project will be run by staff and students from Hillcroft College , with support from Kingston Council and NHS Kingston. The college and partners are now calling for community volunteers to help piece …

Uncovering the lost town of Dunluce 29/03/2013 Development funding of £302,000 was awarded to the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) in support of their initial plans and will enable them to draw up more detailed proposals in order to secure the …

Stories of lives transformed 25/03/2013 Shoreham-based Company Paradiso will be charting the way in which medical understanding of and society’s attitudes toward mental illness shifted from 1970 to the present day. Over this period institutionalised …

Uncovering Woking Palace’s Tudor past 25/03/2013 Woking Palace was a significant moated country manor in the 15th and 16th centuries acquired by Henry VII in 1503 and subsequently improved and expanded by both Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. It was eventually …

Langham Dome Trainer brought back to life 25/03/2013 The black, 40ft diameter concrete structure sits on land that used to be part of RAF Langham near the North Norfolk coast. Built in 1942 it was used to train anti-aircraft gunners using what was then …

Chinese Whispers 18/03/2013 A project to capture the hidden histories of Liverpool’s Chinese community has been awarded a grant of £49,400 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). Artists and oral historians The Sound Agents will work with volunteers and …