0428 Today in History
0428 Today in History
0428 Today in History
Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the last 50 years.
A geography teacher dug up a stone carved with an ancient Celtic script dating back to the 4th century while weeding his garden.
When I heard that Francesca Amewudah-Rivers had been cast as Juliet opposite Tom Holland’s Romeo in the Jamie Lloyd Company’s new production, I had a personal reason to rejoice. Fran portrayed Othello in my adaptation of the National Youth Theatre’s touring production of that play in 2021 and I’ve no doubt that the strength, vulnerability, intelligence and fire that she brought to playing that role were instrumental in her landing Juliet for her West End debut.
No one who visits the Sutton Hoo gallery at the British Museum ever forgets the magnificent artistry of our Anglo-Saxon predecessors. We may think of the fourth to the 10th centuries as a “Dark Age”, ruled by crude barbarism and economic collapse, but the gold and bejewelled treasures they left behind are utterly spellbinding – in their way as good as anything produced by the Roman conquerors who came before.
Step inside Burghley House, the 100-room stately home designed to impress Elizabeth I and packed with precious collections from around the world.
Many will have walked past and missed this small detail
Nev Bentley, 89, said the experience was "out of this world"
A Virginia school board voted Friday to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school, four years after the names were removed amid nationwide protests calling for a reckoning over racial injustice. In a reversal experts believe was the first of its kind, Shenandoah County's school board voted 5-1 to rename Mountain View High School as Stonewall Jackson High School and Honey Run Elementary as Ashby Lee Elementary. Friday's vote reversed a decision by the school board in 2020 when school systems across Virginia and the South were removing Confederate names from schools and other public locations in response to the Black Lives Matter movement.
HISTORIC pub to re-open to the public in a new location tomorrow, Saturday, May 11 with beer served from the Glamorgan Brewery company.
An historian has been gifted a brick of a historic pub before it is redeveloped into new homes.
It may just be that watching a team of specialist art movers lowering a giant Rubens from a defunct picture rail is perfect television. You want jeopardy? How about when the cable on the winch gets jammed and the onlooking National Trust employees charged with the restoration flinch like they’ve stepped on a pin. You want high stakes? The Marchesa Maria Sella Pallavicino (1606) is priceless, enormous, very old and very fragile. Don’t drop it.
Renowned South African artist Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi had a series of artworks disappear during a trip to Sweden in 1991. Three decades later, most of the “Ntlo E Etsamayang (The Walking House)” collection was found in an attic, and are now on display to the public in Johannesburg.
More than 57,000 calls were made to a Christchurch theatre as it was inundated with ticket requests for upcoming Ricky Gervais performances.
Jeff Bezos amassed his wealth through Amazon stocks and owns hundreds of millions of dollars worth of real estate, but one of his most valuable possessions may surprise you: art. Among his collection is the renowned piece "Hurting the Word Radio #2 (1964)" by Ed Ruscha, purchased by Bezos for almost $53 million. This artwork, a prime example of Ruscha’s text-based paintings, stands as a signature piece in Bezos’ collection. As concerns over stock market volatility persist, the world’s wealthiest
Refurbishments at Colne Little Theatre began in September thanks to cash from round one of the Government’s Levelling Up Fund.
Beaulieu's National Motor Museum is to open a new exhibition that will look at mid-century Britain
Youngsters from West Norfolk were treated to a taste of history when they visited Imperial War Museum Duxford as part of their studies on World War II and the Cold War.
It comes after a successful year-long trial in 35 of its large supermarkets
Baby Reindeer has taken the world by storm since its release – but fans have been devastated by the sudden and unexpected death of one of the show's key players
EXCLUSIVE: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's trip to Nigeria has been dubbed a 'mini royal tour' - something which a leading expert has pointed out will not "please" senior Royals