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The archive of Britain’s leading playwright and writer, the 2005 Literature Nobel Laureate, Harold Pinter, has been acquired by

The purchase of four spectacular ‘torcheres’, or candlestands, means an outstanding set of eight is complete again in its origi

A polished jade axe-head dating from the early Neolithic, found at Newton Peverill in the Stour Valley, will now stay in the UK

They have agreed to fund the acquisition of the house, its contents and adjoining land for the public benefit.

English Heritage, in partnership with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) and the

English Heritage has successfully purchased its sixth major artwork by renowned Dutch landscape artist Pieter Andreas Rysbrack

The Tureen was bought for £237,565 through Christie’s under the tax-concessionary scheme for private sales to museums.

With the public appeal raising over £550,000 in just over five weeks, the NHMF – the ‘fund of last resort’ for heritage at risk

The British Museum is delighted to announce that it has recently acquired a set of rare Anglo-Saxon sword hilt fittings with th

An exquisite pair of late 15th-century altar paintings, on oak panels, believed to have furnished a chapel at Westminster Abbey