A spectacular new Christmas light trail at Hatfield Park, Hertfordshire, will open for six full weeks from Friday 25th November to New Years Eve on Saturday 31st 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.
Have you ever found yourself recognising a backdrop in a dramatic scene on television? Perhaps you were distracted by Jamie Fraiser’s love declarations because you suddenly remembered a time you too were walking around that same stone circle.
Nymans, a renowned National Trust garden in West Sussex, has unveiled a new ‘Garden in the Ruins’, created within the remains of the Great Hall which was lost in a catastrophic fire in 1947 and has been inaccessible since.
More than 4500 venues, activities and events will welcome visitors next month as England’s largest festival of history and culture returns. Brought to you by the National Trust, supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery and run by thousands of local organisations and volunteers, Heritage Open Days (HODs) gives everyone free access to hidden places and new experiences.
Scotland's oldest licensed distillery, Littlemill, has partnered with world-renowned photographer, Stefan Sappert, to launch its most significant release to date: an exceptional 45-year-old liquid, commemorating the distillery's 250th anniversary.
A double page from a bible written by monks at the world-famous Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset has returned to its home 800 years after it was written. The roughly A5-sized full colour, two-sided page has gone on public display for the first time in the UK.
Dreweatts Auctioneers is to offer the contents of historic Flaxley Abbey in Gloucestershire, founded in 1151 as a Cistercian Monastery by Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford and the former family seat of the Crawley Boevey Baronets.