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A rare first edition of Robert Burns’ debut poetry collection, which was found in a barber shop has gone on display in Fife.

Due to open in Spring 2023, Burghley House are excited to unveil their new adventure play attraction! The new play area will offer an outdoor play destination for families locally and those visiting from afar.

First World War training trenches, centuries old shipwrecks and cabmen shelters are among the sites being added to the National Heritage list. They are now part of the official database of protected historical assets.

Beaulieu Abbey are hosting open-air performances of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen performed by the London Touring Players from 16^th December to 2^nd January

Canterbury Cathedral will be joining a new virtual exhibition and in-person collection trail as part of a project being run with the National Gallery throughout the UK. The exhibition and trail begins on 5^th December and will run through until April next year.

Delgatie Castle is once again hosting their Victorian Christmas this year with the final dates taking place on 10^th and 11^th December.

A blue plaque has been unveiled in South London to remember the area’s gypsy and traveller community’s heritage. 

You can’t escape the World Cup – even though it is being hosted miles away in Qatar, it is everywhere. Learn more about the beautiful game with the history of football here.

A Heritage Blue Plaque is to be installed at 22 Great Smith Street in Westminster, London to make the building’s use as the HQ of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. It was in use, mainly by the more peaceful suffragists, in the years leading up to the change in voting law in 1918.

A spectacular new Christmas light trail at Hatfield Park, Hertfordshire, will open for six full weeks from Friday 25^th November to New Years Eve on Saturday 31^st December.

Ightham Mote, a stately home managed by the National Trust in Kent, is pleased to announce the return of a sketch created by artist John Singer Sargent, which was done at the home and features one of the former residents.

English Heritage is hosting a new series of ghost story tours across five of its northern monasteries. Created in collaboration between English Heritage’s senior historians and Manchester Metropolitan University’s professor of gothic literature, the tours will use ghost stories to highlight the deeper histories of the sites that would have previously gone unheard by visitors.