Current head Kate Arnold-Forster is retiring after almost 24 years in the role

Guy Baxter becomes the new Director of the University of Reading's Museums and Collections, as Kate Arnold-Forster and Isabel Hughes depart.

An iconic under-5s group deserves iconic design. Discover the new look of Friday Fledglings and how your toddler can get involved.

Join us on a whistle-stop gallery tour through 75 years of The MERL!

We've combined Dolly's amazing catalogue of songs with our catalogue of objects from rural history. Join us on a journey from rural England to Dollywood.

Former electrician David Judd, 92, hid coins in properties, offering finders "one pint best beer".

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

Whitehall wants to triple their number in the UK. Yet in Slough, I saw the impact they’re having on communities, says Guardian columnist John Harris

As mass-production and technology take over, artisans are working to save threatened traditions.

Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.

WASHINGTON, DC—After running a thousand errands, working hours of overtime, and being stuck in seemingly endless gridlock traffic commuting to and from their jobs, millions of Americans were dishearte...

Neil MacGregor on past expressions of British identity and how they shape our identity now

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

Inkpen, Berkshire: Mow, tedder, rake and bale – it all has to be done before the next rainfall, which is increasingly hard to predict

Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.

Scottish spirit 'has no equivalent in American sport' - Red Sox president