Heritage & Culture

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Peterborough in the Great War

A major new exhibition at Peterborough Museum this summer tells the story of the city’s role during World War...

Perkins is Peterborough

Perkins is one of Peterborough’s greatest success stories; founded in the 1930s, it has just celebrated manufacture of its...

Women of Peterborough

A queen, a war heroine, a nurse, a butter seller, a Saxon princess, a woman who tried to introduce...

Spiritual Capital

In September 2012, Peterborough Cathedral – set to celebrate its 900th anniversary in 2018 – formally launched the corporate...

What’s the story? | Elton Hall

Local historians and authors June and Vernon Bull uncover the history of some of Peterborough and the region’s iconic...

What’s the story? | Milton Hall

Local historians and authors June and Vernon Bull uncover the history of some of Peterborough and the region’s iconic...

Must Farm boats are older than first thought

Peterborough’s most famous archaeological treasures just got even more extraordinary: the Must Farm boats, found by archaeologists in 2011,...

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