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24th October - 00:00

This Black History Month, we’re digging into our Archive to find out what happened to the home of Cesar Picton, one of Britain’s first Black "gentlemen".

15th August - 13:54

On the 110th anniversary of the Ancient Monuments Consolidation and Amendments Act, we look at how the threat to Tattershall Castle helped to bring about some of the first real protections for ancient buildings.

15th December - 17:39

A lot of thought goes into how best to keep houses warm. But in the 17th century, another big question was how to keep produce cold.

30th November - 14:53

For Explore Your Archives week we’re celebrating stories from our past. 

28th November - 19:18

For Explore Your Archives week we’re celebrating stories from our past.

21st June - 15:20

Standing on the very edge of the county is one of Suffolk's finest medieval churches

 

14th June - 18:03

We were consulted in the 1920s about repairs to an impressive castle destroyed in the Civil War which later became a tourist attraction.

22nd April - 17:06

As it’s Huntingdonshire Day, we had a look in our archives for heritage gems from the area that sometimes causes a bit of a headache for our archivist, as it was abolished as a county in 1974.

16th March - 15:23

Lying in our archives is a heavy and crumbling album. It contains more than a hundred drawings, mostly dated from the 1780s, nearly a century before the SPAB was founded. So who was he and why do we have his work?

19th December - 00:33

Stonehenge may have an air of timelessness, in fact it has been a place of constant change, as our archive reveals.