Children/families

Families are now able to step back into the world of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s children at Osborne on the Isle of Wight.

Rescued from the Sea aimed to excavate and rescue what is left of the Bronze Age cemetery site, and underlying Neolithic and Mesolithic deposits, at Low Hauxley, Northumberland before they are eroded into the sea.

Public interest in the Staffordshire Hoard has been unprecedented. A temporary display at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery attracted more than half a million visitors in 12 months.

Swaledale Big Dig is uncovering and recording the archaeology and history of the local settlements of Grinton and Reeth.

Hundreds of local people took part in a community archaeology project at Polesworth Abbey, near Tamworth.

This £4.4million landscape partnership scheme has worked to restore lost habitats, develop skills and inspire young people to champion and look after the New Forest.

West Berkshire Council and Newbury Community Resource Centre worked with local people to revive the fortunes of a neglected river.

A fascinating view of Bath’s Georgian history has been opened up thanks to the restoration of No 1, Royal Crescent.

An ambitious scheme to restore and reopen an historic stretch of waterway on the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal is one step closer, thanks to the completion of phase one of the Cefn Flight of Fourteen Locks Restoration project.

Five museums and heritage organisations in the south east of England found new ways to engage audiences with their geological collections.

No game for girls explored how First World War munitionette football teams drew crowds of thousands before they were banned after the war by an anti-women’s football campaign.

Three hundred school children across East Anglia became Vikings for three days when they learnt about life during Viking times.