history
‘Masterpiece’ sundial made for founder of RBS is acquired for the nation
The Ilay Glynne dial is now on public display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
Unesco rejects proposal to add Stonehenge to world heritage ‘in danger’ list
The World Heritage Committee voted for an amendment that essentially rules out the monument being added to its list of threatened Unesco sites.
Cormac Moore: Changing electoral map shows need for border poll criteria
Elections of the past put the shifting electoral patterns into context
Archaeologists restore profile of Britain’s oldest chalk figure
National Trust and Oxford Archaeology have completed work to restore the head and neck profile of the Uffington White Horse.
Celia Imrie: My 70s are teaching me to live in the moment
The actor and author tells Lauren Taylor about her parents’ wartime experience, being inspired by the sea and how Hollywood misrepresents women.
From the ‘Mistress of the Macabre’ to Joseph Locke: the famous, often forgotten figures from the north in Glasnevin Cemetery
Author and tour guide Warren Farrell reveals some of the famous Dublin graveyard’s notable northern inhabitants, as detailed in his new book So Once Was I: Forgotten Tales from Glasnevin Cemetery
Archaeological survey of land to aid nature restoration reveals two Roman villas
A survey of Attingham Park in Shropshire also revealed evidence about the city of Wroxeter, Iron Age farmsteads and a Second World War airfield.
Diary of St Malachy’s College schoolboy offers fascinating look at daily life in Belfast around outbreak of First World War
Diary penned by St Malachy’s College pupil published for a new audience 110 years after final entry
Films more influential than school in inspiring interest in history – research
Movies, television and theatre was found to the be the most significant factor in driving curiosity about a particular era.
Armagh’s place in the decade of centenaries
A major history of Co Armagh offers new perspectives on one of the most controversial theatres of political and military conflict during the 1912–23 period