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When construction began in AD 122, Hadrian's Wall marked the furthermost limit of the Roman Empire. Stretching 73 miles from the North Sea to the Solway Firth, it divided conquered territory to the south from that occupied by unbeaten tribes to the north. Almost 2,000 years on, the Wall remains a potent symbol of the north-south divide between England and Scotland, referenced frequently in the ongoing and often-heated debate over Scottish independence.…
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The Picture Desk
Britain at War in Colour, released later this spring, reveals 100 of the best original images from the IWM collection. Some of them have been previously published – either in American magazines after the war, or more recently in books…
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Excavating Glamorgan and Monmouthsire
This publication features, among other highlights, the extraordinary, emotive survival of a series of footprints made by a Mesolithic child.
History hidden in plain sight
Banksy has made himself very rich with witty examples of the genre, and both Historic England and the National Trust now conserve and celebrate historic graffiti.
The value of culture
Economics cannot be used to measure the emotional, educational, psychological, spiritual, health, and social benefits of heritage – all the things that make life worth living.
Excavating the past of south Wales
This revealed much about life in ‘Roman’ Wales, in both its modest urbanised centres and its wider hinterlands.
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