The Thomas Cook History Man
The Thomas Cook Exhibition ‘Wish You Were Here’ at Peterborough Museum offers a fascinating glimpse into the 175-year history...
Features
Must Farm finds: making history
The new season of Vivacity heritage workshops at Flag Fen and Peterborough Museum begins in October and continues through...
Priestgate Vaults
In October 2015, Peterborough Museum opened an entirely new – and very old – space to the public: the...
Tower Tours
Toby Venables takes a Cathedral tour that takes you to the parts other tours can’t reach...
Peterborough Heritage Festival 2016: the Vikings are coming!
For two days in July, the Heritage Festival – organised by Vivacity and Peterborough Cathedral, with support from Perkins...
Peterborough’s unique digital WWI project
January 2016 saw the launch of www.peterboroughww1.com – a heritage website offering a unique insight into the lives of...
Exploring the lost world of Must Farm…
In 1982, routine drainage works on the outskirts of Peterborough revealed a unique ancient monument: a kilometre-long Bronze Age...
Alison Weir: “Social mores change, but human nature doesn’t…”
On 6 May, best-selling historian and novelist Alison Weir will be launching her latest novel, Katherine of Aragon: The...
Walter Cornelius: The Bird Man of Peterborough
Walter Cornelius is a true local legend. He came to England as a teenager from his native Latvia in...
Peterborough’s Big Jurassic Fish…
When Victorian fossil hunter Alfred Nicholson Leeds found some tantalising bones in a Peterborough clay pit, it was initially...
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