STICK's autumn conference will explore Scotland's rich railway heritage.

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Join Clutha Archaeology Group for a guided walk through Dalzell Estate, Motherwell.

Explore the history of the Gartsherrie Branch of the Monkland Canal, now a Scheduled Monument, with the Industrial History Curator.

NEW BLOG POST! Guest author Richard Newman, from the Brickworks Museum, looks at Bursledon's brickworks & its railway connection - including Albert Goddard's 1914 accident. #Hampshire Images courtesy…

Abstract. In the Age of Sail, ships required ballast to ensure buoyancy at sea, pulling the vessel down in the water and stabilising it against lateral for

It is the earliest example of Norman Cornish's work in Northumbria University's collection.

by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Before I go any further, I want to state that the theft and destruction of heritage across the world is not unco…

Copyright – Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon Copyright – Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon Copyright – Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon It was with…

We're delighted to announce that the new British Newspaper Archive will launch on Tuesday 28 July 2026, with a range of brand new features.

A move to single-year funding allocations has hampered Glasgow's efforts to provide around 270km of segregated cycle routes.

Once seen as a culture war confined to the USA, book censorship is gaining ground in the UK. Authors, librarians and teachers warn of mounting pressure to remove titles from school libraries, particul...

This blogpost will be a bit of a break from my usual fare of biographical notes about interesting women engineers of the past. Today I want to consider women whose names have become attached to thi…

It is not often I get angry, but a recent encounter with a standing stone has really annoyed – and shocked me. I am pretty used to prehistory being badly treated, and indeed a whole chapter o…