Heritage Festival Events 2016
The Peterborough Heritage Festival is a unique chance to experience 3,500 years of history. Held in and around the...
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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,...
Peterborough’s Big Jurassic Fish…
When Victorian fossil hunter Alfred Nicholson Leeds found some tantalising bones in a Peterborough clay pit, it was initially...
Heritage workshops and lectures | Spring 2016
In Spring 2016, Vivacity’s heritage sites (Peterborough Museum, Longthorpe Tower and Flag Fen Archaeology Park) will once again host...
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Cromwell’s Huntingdon
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Celebrations for 900 years of St Kyneburgha
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Introducing Must Farm: A Bronze Age Settlement
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Peterborough’s very own Deep-Sea Monster
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Perkins Engines – Built in Peterborough
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Rolls-Royce: Part of Peterborough’s...
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From Karachi, with love…
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Steam along the Nene
