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Southampton’s Tudor House Museum recently took a step nearer to re-opening with the completion of the first phase of repair and conservation work which will eventually cost in the region of £5.5m.

Bikers for churches weekend
Around the country bikers can visit churches while raising money.

Blickling Hall voices remember the past
A redisplay of the working rooms of Blickling Hall has followed a six month oral history project.

Liverpool homeopathic building saved
English Heritage have listed the former Liverpool Hahnemann Hospital and Dispensary on Hope Street, Liverpool, as a building of national significance.

Good news for former Cheshire salt works
The Lion Salt Works Trust in Marston, just north-east of Northwich, in Cheshire has been awarded £4,960,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Holborn's 'Little Italy'
An exhibition in the Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre will recall the history of the Italian quarter in Holborn.

More money for Scottish war memorials
Historic Scotland has decided to give £30,000 annually to the War Memorials Trust.

Extraction fund helps save the past
Chichester's historic Guildhall is receiving about £72,000 from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) to carry out much needed repairs.

Thomas Clarkson: a moving story for the Bicentenary
An unassuming monument on a roadside verge in Hertfordshire marks the moment which sparked off the campaign for the abolition of slavery.

An anniversary tale
July 2007 marked the 50th anniversary of Cheshire’s County Hall. It opened nearly seventy years after the county council was established in 1889, so why did it take so long?

Rotherham on canvas
Works of art from the past 250 years, showing how the borough's industrial, rural and town-centre landscape has changed, are currently being displayed at the town's art gallery.

Liverpool's oldest family
The George family trace their connection back to the 16th century.

Lenton Sikh Temple Walk
An imaginative collaboration between Lenton's Gurdwara and the local community.

Preparing for War
A follow-up from a visitor to our earlier story about ARP volunteers.

East End images
A collection of images of the East End are now available to view on a web site.

Carnegie's legacy lives on
Erdington Library in Birmingham celebrates its centenary.

Carol Kammen is honoured by her peers
Carol's contribution to American local history is honoured by the American Association for State & Local History.

Wartime Weekend at Oxburgh
Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk is turning back the clock to wartime Britain this coming weekend (1–2 September) with an event called ‘From War to War’.

Hospital Voices from Nightingale to Now
The personal stories of nurses and patients from three London hospitals, have been used in an imaginative exhibition called ‘Hospital Voices’ at the Florence Nightingale Museum

Online in York
The Fairfax House Museum in York has created an online museum tour

Bevin Boys appeal
The new Woodhorn Museum in Northumberland is planning an oral history project focusing on Bevin Boys and wants to make contact with former Bevin Boys or people who worked alongside them.

Turning back the clock at Ickworth House
Ickworth House, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, has begun the first stages of an exciting new project called ‘Real Lives: Ickworth Past and Present’.

Four in one maps
A new map series has been launched by Cassini Publishing which brings you four views of the same area from the early-19th century to the present day.

A ‘wicki’ house idea
A houseowner has decided to launch a collaborative website about house history.

The last Roman in London?
Excavations in London have uncovered the burial of a Roman man with rich early Saxon grave goods.

Boost for local history in the far north
The people of the Shetlands are celebrating the opening of their £11.6m Museum and Archives.

Community archives: reaching the parts others don't
Local societies need advice on how to care for their archives

Well done Malcolm!
Malcolm has been honoured with an MBE after forty-three years with Camden Libraries.

Workhouse vision of the future
It has taken volunteers working with the National Archives and the National Trust five years to transcribe NA records concerning Southwell Workhouse in Nottinghamshire.

Historic museums face closure
The William Morris Gallery and the Vestry House Museum in Walthamstow face closure.

York discovery turns back time
A recent find shows that 14th century York was at the forefront of science and technology.

Local history volunteers learn market skills
Local history and other groups benefit from pioneering training organised by Kirklees Council.

Chartist history event may help save mural
A gathering of family historians may help to save an historical mural from destruction.

Smaller news items
Including a collection of 7,500 historic photographs from Hertfordshire.

A war memorial in search of new home
A mystery war memorial which turned up in a council depot is set to be put back into the community.

Smaller news items
Including Webwatch

Introducing RUTH
A new historical resource for a group of Essex towns and villages was launched at the end of last year.