9 h. ago Cosy village with Michelin star pub and surrounded by glades and woodland

This enchanting East Yorkshire village boasts a Michelin-starred pub, historic attractions and scenic walks for the perfect day out

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6 d. ago 'Enchanted' village with hidden historic garden and beautiful waterfalls

Discover Aysgarth in Yorkshire Dales, home to stunning Aysgarth Falls and a hidden Edwardian rock garden perfect for nature lovers and history enthusiasts

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9 d. ago 5 gardening tasks you must do in January for a beautiful garden come spring

Garden expert Peter Mortin has shared the essential gardening tasks you should be doing in January to prevent your garden looking barren come spring.

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1 week ago 'Enchanted' Welsh village surrounded by wooded vales and winding rivers is 'loveliest ever'

Nestled among wooded vales and winding rivers in Eryri/Snowdonia National Park, the village captivates visitors with its legendary folklore and breathtaking mountain scenery

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1 week ago 'Outstanding' Scottish war epic with '10/10' cast is 'better than Braveheart'

Netflix viewers have been praising one of the streaming platform's hidden gems, with some fans claiming the Scottish historical epic is even better than Braveheart.

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2 w. ago The hidden history on London's streets: How 'ordinary' garden fences and bollards used as ashtrays are reminders of Britain's heroic past

From 'ugly' garden fences in Tower Hamlets to weather-worn bollards repurposed as ashtrays near Southwark Bridge, these objects bear little resemblance to their former selves.

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2 w. ago ‘The hidden engine room’: how amateur historians are powering genealogical research

Wealth of datasets compiled as private passions are now a goldmine for those hunting for their ancestorsThe autumn sunlight is filtering through quietly falling leaves as Louise Cocker stands in front of the gravestone of James Henry Payne and takes a quick photograph. Payne died at the age of 73 in October 1917 and was buried in the Norfolk town of North Walsham, along with his wife Eleanor and son James Edward, who was killed in the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917. “Not lost”, reads the simple slab, “but gone before”.This is far from the first Norfolk gravestone Cocker, 53, has photographed – in fact, over 24 years, she has captured almost half a million of them, driving around the county on her weekends and days off from her job in the local Lidl supermarket. As a result, she has produced a remarkable dataset of 615,000 names – many graves contain more than one person – which experts consider one of the most comprehensive photographic records of gravestones and memorials in En...

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2 w. ago ‘An unsung alternative to the Cotswolds‘: exploring Leicestershire’s Welland valley

This hidden gem has country inns, canalside walks, a stunning viaduct, the historic town of Market Harborough – and not a tour bus in sightIt was a chilly Sunday in November 2000 when the gods chose to smile on Ken Wallace. The retired teacher was sweeping his metal detector across a hillside in Leicestershire’s Welland valley when a series of beeps brought him up short. Digging down, he found a cache of buried coins almost two millennia old. He had chanced upon one of the UK’s most important iron age hoards, totalling about 5,000 silver and gold coins.More than 25 years on, I’m staring at Ken’s find at the civic museum in the nearby town of Market Harborough. The now gleaming coins are decorated with wreaths and horses. They’re about the size of 5p pieces, but speak of a wild-eyed age of tribal lands and windswept hill forts. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Inside the enchanting English village where one Christmas classic movie was filmed

The famous Christmas film stars Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jack Black and Jude Law

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2 w. ago Family pay heartbreaking tribute to ‘beautiful young man’, 18, killed after car crashed into garden & flipped

A FAMILY has paid a touching tribute to their “beautiful young man” after he died when the car he was in crashed into a garden and flipped over. Sidney Brook, 18, was driving a grey Ford Fiesta which crashed into a property in Baildon, West Yorkshire, at around 12.55am on December 20. He was pronounced...

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3 w. ago Manchester Museum seeks help to uncover hidden histories of African collection

New Africa Hub confronts colonial-era silences by asking visitors to share insights on 40,000 objectsIt’s a rare thing for a museum to talk about what it doesn’t know. But unanswered questions and archival silences are at the heart of the new Africa Hub at Manchester Museum, north-west England, which is inviting people around the world to help fill the gaps.The museum holds more than 40,000 items from across Africa, many of which were traded, collected, looted or preserved during the era of the British empire. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago A hidden life in the era of social media can still change history, as the story of Jesus shows

I see in Christmas an invitation to see differently: God in the social outcast, life on the margins reimagined as the centre of gravityDo you want to be influential?So do 57% of Gen Zs in the US who aspire to be influencers, presumably lured by money and fame. But say you also want to make the world a better place. In that case, maybe the spiritual instruction you need emerges in the famous final lines of George Eliot’s 1871 novel Middlemarch:Justine Toh is senior research fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago A hidden life in the era of social media can still change history, as the story of Jesus shows | Justine Toh

I see in Christmas an invitation to see differently: God in the social outcast, life on the margins reimagined as the centre of gravityDo you want to be influential?So do 57% of gen Zs in the US who aspire to be influencers, presumably lured by money and fame. But say you also want to make the world a better place. In that case, maybe the spiritual instruction you need emerges in the famous final lines of George Eliot’s 1871 novel Middlemarch:Justine Toh is senior research fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Man found his picture on missing person site then cracked case to find his true identity

An adopted man stumbled across an image on a missing persons site that led to an astonishing discovery about his own hidden origins and family history

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