Peterborough Heritage open days
Over one weekend of the year, all manner of places normally closed to the public open their doors –...
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Tower Tours
Toby Venables takes a Cathedral tour that takes you to the parts other tours can’t reach...
Heritage Festival Events 2016
The Peterborough Heritage Festival is a unique chance to experience 3,500 years of history. Held in and around the...
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...
A new year, a new face at Sacrewell!
A little known fact about Sacrewell, is that it’s part of a charitable trust, the William Scott Abbott Trust,...
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...
Have a browse through Peterborough Archives
Ever wondered what stories you might unearth if you spent a day browsing through Peterborough’s archives? Vivacity’s Archives Manager,...
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St Kyneburgha – 900 years young!
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John Clare – Peterborough’s Rural Muse
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The ‘Weaker Vessel’?
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Tell me a story
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Flag Fen – all wrapped up
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Burghley’s Big Sleep
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A Very Burghley Christmas!
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Flora and Fauna: Burghley House’s natural...
