Restoration work at Croome Park is in its 20th year now, which has seen the National Trust restore more than 400 acres of pasture, which had been arable farmland for the past half a century,… Read more

The Compton Verney Restoration Project was initially launched to restore the ‘Capability’ Brown Chapel of 1776-9, but the project was soon scaled up to include the landscape in which it sits, all considered in relation to the potential funds that… Read more

Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is a pioneering outdoor cultural haven that aims to challenge, inspire, inform and delight its 400,000 annual visitors of which 48,000 are part of learning visits. Included in the landscape are formal gardens,… Read more

The isolation of graphene in 2004 at the University of Manchester by professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov did not happen during their normal ‘office hours’ but at one of their Friday night, after-work labs. Their discovery… Read more

The paintings have left the castle on only two occasions – to London in 1802 for work on their frames, and in 1995 when they went on display at the National Gallery in London and the Museo del Prado in… Read more