Export Bar Placed on a Collection of Typescripts From Contemporary Dramatizations of the Works of Thomas Hardy

U.K. Culture Minister, Margaret Hodge, has placed a temporary export bar on a collection of typescripts from contemporary dramatizations of the works of Thomas Hardy.  This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the collection in the United...

Temporary Export Bar Placed on Welsh Landscape with Two Women Knitting, a Painting By William Dyce

U.K. Culture Minister, Margaret Hodge, has placed a temporary export bar on a painting by William Dyce, Welsh landscape with two women knitting. The Minister’s ruling follows a recommendation by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art...

Sea Change Ship Comes in for Seven of England’s Coastal Towns

Britain’s oldest surviving rollercoaster is being restored to its former glory, one of our finest Victorian railway stations will be transformed, and fishermen’s cellars from the 1800s will be refurbished as the latest round of the Government funded...

U.K. Government Scheme Accepts Artworks in Lieu of Inheritance Tax

Paintings by Titian, Van Dyck and David Hockney as well as many other cultural works – with a combined value of £19.8 million – were saved for the nation last year thanks to the Government’s Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme, Culture Minister...

Countdown to Keep British Inventor’s Iconic Clock in the UK Starts Now

U.K. Culture Minister Margaret Hodge has placed a temporary export bar on a clock system designed by the internationally renowned British clock designer William Hamilton Shortt. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep Shortt’s...

New $10 Million U.K. Government Scheme to Get Primary Boys Reading More

Espionage, ghosts and aliens all feature heavily in a new list of over 200 popular books being given to schools on loan as part of a new drive to get boys reading sooner and trying new books. ‘The Famous Five’, ‘Just William’ and...

Spoliation Advisory Panel Rules That Two Fine Pieces of Porcelain Acquired By the British Museum And the Fitzwilliam Museum were Looted

Two pieces of fine porcelain currently housed in two museums in Britain were looted during the Nazi period, an Independent Panel ruled today. A monteith or glass cooler at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge will be returned to the claimant, the sole...

Out of the Frying Pan, Into The…Heritage

Two sausage shops in South London were today listed as Grade II buildings, by U.K. Culture Minister Margaret Hodge. The shops, each retaining many original 1920s art-deco features such as tiling, ‘sunburst’ lights and engraved glass features...