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[1st February 2012]

Find out what's going on around the UK in February with our events and exhibitions page

[25th January 2012]

Gail Boyle, curator at the M Shed in Bristol, nominates the John Horwood book as the museum's most curious object. You can hear more from Gail on this week's free podcast

Telecommunication through the ages

[23rd January 2012]

Coventry University is to catalogue, digitise and develop a searchable online archive of almost half a million photographs, documents and correspondence preserved by BT over the last 165 years. We bring you some of the remarkable images

Captain RF Scotts Hut Exterior © New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust

Out and about this weekend

[19th January 2012]

Your guide to what's on around Britain this weekend

The west has long feared the rise of China

[11th January 2012]

BBC's Chris Bowlby looks at the history behind the western world's fear of the rise of China

Turner in January

[9th January 2012]

Thirty-eight watercolour paintings by artist JMW Turner (1775–1851) are now on display at the Scottish National Gallery. Here is a selection of images featured in the exhibition

Wallpaintings uncovered

[3rd January 2012]

The Churches Conservation Trust has launched a new online interactive guide to just some of the fine wallpaintings in its care. Here are some of the exquisite images and their stories

Out and about in January

[1st January 2012]

Find out what's going on around the UK in January with our events and exhibitions page

Exeter's underground passages

[20th December 2011]

To accompany this week's podcast interview with Professor Mark Stoyle, recorded on location in Exeter's underground passages, we bring you a selection of images of the passages themselves

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[19th December 2011]

The British Newspaper Archive is to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library's vast collection over the next 10 years. Here are just some of the documents available online

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John Farrant threatened the dean of Salisbury Cathedral

5 February

1592

John Farrant, organist at Salisbury Cathedral, left the building during evensong to confront the dean, John Bridges. Farrant threatened to cut the dean's throat for publicly rebuking him for his treatment of his wife. Bridges escaped by locking himself in his bedroom.

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