Heritage & Culture

Explore Peterborough’s rich and exciting heritage from the comfort of your browser, with The Moment’s Historic Peterborough section.

The ‘Weaker Vessel’?

A new exhibit at the Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon looks at the experience of women through the Civil War...

Tell me a story

Peterborough Museum

If you ever want to hunt for treasure in the city then head to Peterborough Museum: it’s chock-full of...

Flag Fen – all wrapped up

Bronze Age Roundhouse

It’s hard to imagine what it must have been like for Bronze Age people with only hearth-light to keep...

Burghley’s Big Sleep

Burghley House

At the end of each October, Burghley House prepares to close its doors to the public and enter hibernation...

A Very Burghley Christmas!

The team at Burghley House always end the year on a high, with their sumptuous (and extremely festive) Christmas...

The Vikings are coming!

The Vikings are coming!

Hundreds of Viking re-enactors from all over the UK are set to descend on Flag Fen again this year...

Where’s Ratzi?

It would seem that a Crime has been Committed, Ratzi has been stolen!!

Janina Ramirez: Raider of the Lost Past

Janina Ramirez

Back in Peterborough after her visit to examine Longthorpe Tower several years ago, Janina brings her new book, Femina,...

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