From the unusual to the humorous, the heartfelt to the heart-wrenching, these examples demonstrate the wealth of stories held in archives around the UK. Hopefully they'll inspire you to get out and explore your own local archive! Egg-dispensing machine on Umberleigh railway station, 1972. Credit:

Dr Robert Whan is Keeper of Armagh Robinson Library, the oldest public library in Northern Ireland and an accredited museum. He told us about his love of history.

In celebration of St Fagans National Museum of History and the largest grant ever given by the HLF in Wales, here’s the Museum’s Director General sharing with us what heritage means to him.

Philip Long is the director at V&A Dundee. In celebration of its opening on 15 September, he tells us what heritage means to him.

This weekend sees the opening of the Horniman Museum's new World Gallery, made possible by a £3.3million grant from HLF. To celebrate, we spoke to the museum's Chief Executive, Nick Merriman, about what heritage means to him.

It's International Museum Day on 18 May. To celebrate, we got in touch with some of the 1,100+ National Lottery Heritage Fund-supported museums to find out about their most weird, wonderful and significant objects.

To celebrate World Book Day, we got in touch with some of our grantees whose projects have involved books, and asked them for anecdotes about the most interesting things they’ve ever found inside a book.

As we commemorate 100 years since some women won the right to vote in the UK, Carmen Talbot, the project coordinator for the Rebellious Sounds Archive, tells us what heritage means to her.

Stephen Clews, of Bath’s Roman Baths, tells us what heritage means to him.

HLF’s Ros Kerslake explains how HLF is leading the way for action on climate change in the heritage sector.