Vivacity helps local students dig into the past at Flag Fen’s Summer Field School Vivacity has joined forces with Dig Ventures to embark on an ambitious project – ‘Flag Fen Lives’ – at Flag Fen this summer. This July, for the first time in a decade, Flag Fen’s archaeological trenches will be open to the ..
Local residents are being urged to vote for their favourite Peterborough image to be turned into a free postcard Four images from two local heritage related projects will be whittled down to one from each through a public poll. Vote now at www.opportunitypeterborough.co.uk or here peterboroughbuildingsinneed.wordpress.com/postcard-vote/ Peterborough in Detail is one of the projects which ..
Peterborough Engineering Society is on the lookout for future speakers for its meetings through to 2014, running through the winter months from October to April The organisation, which has been in existence for over.. Continue Reading
Here is advance news of our most ambitious project yet . . . apart from restoring the eagle memorial that is! We are planning a weekend trip to Portsmouth from Friday 20th to Sunday.. Continue Reading
On Tuesday 7th February 2012 Peterborough will be turning Dickensian! This Bicentenary Celebration Re-enactment and Talk will celebrate the life and work of Charles Dickens to mark the bicentenary of his birth in 2012... Continue Reading
Every Saturday between the 14th January and 30th June at 2pm Peterborough Museum runs a historic tour of Peterborough. Not only are the tours a great opportunity to escape from shopping, but they are also a fun.. Continue Reading
Peterborough’s culture and leisure trust, Vivacity, stages a regular programme of interesting talks on a range of historical subjects throughout the year. These talks cover thousands of years of human history, personalities, social history, military topics, politics, art.. Continue Reading
On Sunday 29th January 2012 the Battle of Britain tour looks at Duxford’s role as a typical Battle of Britain Fighter Station, examining the communications systems employed to win the battle in the air,.. Continue Reading
From 1968 to 1988, the Peterborough Development Corporation transformed the city adding the parkway road system, cycleways, developing Nene Park, Queensgate Shopping Centre and three new townships at Orton, Bretton and Werrington, among many.. Continue Reading