The Women’s Museum is a new space celebrating the stories, heritage and role of women in Barking and Dagenham. Its first exhibition, An Idea of Life, looking at Barking Abbey through artefacts and modern artworks, opens from Thurs-Sat each week from 14 March. [@NewTownCulture_]
The revamped Time Team group will be starting a new dig at Sutton Hoo this June, looking to learn more about the Anglo-Saxon cemetery discovered there in 2000. The group is collaborating with the National Trust in a two-year project, and the dig will be showcased on the Time Team YouTube channel. [@thetimeteam Picture: Alex … Read more
Work has started to uncover what is Britain’s only known complete Neolithic cursus. Five years after its discovery, archaeologists at Glasgow University are now working at the large site – 1.km long – at Drumadoon on Arran, near the Machrie Moor stone circle. [Yahoo News. Picture: HES]
A new exhibition at St Fagans National Museum of History in Cardiff tells the story of the Women’s Peace Petition from 1924, and the wider history of women’s activism. Runs from 9 March until 15 September. [@AmgueddfaCymru]
Dressing the Georgians is a new exhibition at the King’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, starting on 22 March. It features Georgian clothing across all strata of society, from the practical dress of laundry maids to the glittering gowns worn at court. [@RCT]
The Royal Mail and the Natural History Museum have teamed up to create a new set of stamps featuring Dorset fossil hunter Mary Anning (1799–1847) and some of the fossils she found.